On Oct 11, 2008, at 9:42 PM, Dave Ray wrote:
On the graphics side, I re-tested and have some details. I can copy from Preview to Gimp, but not vise-versa. I tried every possible way I could think of that might work. After opening and selecting an image in Gimp, I tried just selecting an area and then using OS-X Copy; tried selecting an area, using Edit -> Copy from within Gimp, then using OS-X copy. Tried all these with command-C in place of the OS-X menu copy. None of these combinations would paste into Preview or Photoshop from Gimp.
No no no. You're still doing it wrong. :-) With an application like Gimp that has its own Copy menu item (in the menu bar in the Gimp window), you don't use OS X's Copy at all. So you should just hit ctrl- C (aka Gimp's Copy) and then switch to Preview or whatever and paste. You only use OS X's Copy (command-C) for applications that don't have their own Copy menu item, like xterm. This difference exists because there are two different mechanisms for supporting copy and paste in X11, which is why Jeremy keeps talking about CLIPBOARD vs. PRIMARY.