George has been doing a great amount of work on this, so please give him the thanks he deserves and flood us with feedback, concerns, etc. Right now, this is being distributed as a separate binary for testing purposes. It includes an updated quartz-wm binary as well since the '--no-pasteboard' option in 2.3.1 wasn't fully functional. This updated quartz-wm will be part of 2.3.2_beta1, and I intend to integrate pbproxy's code into a thread on the X11 server itself. There is already a preference pane available for it which should cover most of the alternate behavior people have requested over the past year that I've been part of this conversation. Here is a snapshot of that configuration pane with the default options shown. If you think the behavior you want won't be covered by this, please let me know (note that I welcome formatting, text, punctuation, etc feedback as well). Thanks, Jeremy On Sep 22, 2008, at 11:39, George Peter Staplin wrote:
About pbproxy -------------
pbproxy is an application that transfers selections to/from X11 and the Mac pasteboard/clipboard.
It supports copying strings, such as UTF-8, Latin-1, and Compound text. In addition to those, there is support for image copying, so you can copy images to/from the X11 Gimp (and other X11 applications that support image copying) and Mac applications.
There is also support for copying and pasting very large amounts of data that used to previously fail.
o Is it for me?
If you currently experience problems with the existing copy/paste code in XQuartz or would like to copy images, then give this a try. pbproxy probably will solve the problems.
o Downloads
The home page of pbproxy and my XQuartz projects: http://people.freedesktop.org/~gstaplin/
This is what you want (the binaries with an installer): http://people.freedesktop.org/~gstaplin/pbproxy_test-10.tar.bz2 http://people.freedesktop.org/~gstaplin/pbproxy_test-10.tar.bz2.md5
o Sources
The sources to pbproxy are currently in the git repository for the 1.4 apple branch of the X.org xserver.
o Thanks
Thanks to Apple, and especially (in no particular order) Jeremy Huddleston, and Jordan K. Hubbard this project has been improved, and made possible.
o Feedback
Please report problems/bugs and/or success stories to this xquartz-dev list, or gstaplin@apple.com
Enjoy,
George -- http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/ http://whim.linuxsys.net http://code.google.com/p/megapkg/ http://people.freedesktop.org/~gstaplin/ _______________________________________________ Xquartz-dev mailing list Xquartz-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev
