Cut/copy-and=paste in Motif applications
Cut/copy-and=paste in Motif applications
- Subject: Cut/copy-and=paste in Motif applications
- From: Rob Arthan <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:08:10 +0100
Does anyone have any suggestions for a problem I have been having for a long time with cut/copy-and-paste in a Motif application that I develop and use. The application has been stable and in production use for the best part of 20 years on Solaris and (more recently) Linux and MacOS X. The problem is intermittent but frequent (and very annoying). What happens is that after doing cut or paste, copy either doesn't function or only functions in the same instance of the application and not between other instances or other X applications. The problem can be cured temporarily by changing the pasteboard settings in the X11 preferences, e.g., by toggling sync from enabled to disabled (sometimes several times). If I disable syncing and run xclipboard, the problem seems to go away, but I am not yet certain whether that is a permanent work-around.
The problem occurs both on an iMac and an old MacBook running MacOS X 10.6.8 and XQuartz 2.3.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple56) and on a new MacBook running MacOS X 10.8.3 XQuartz 2.7.4 (xorg-server 1.13.0).
Regards,
Rob.
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