Hello! It can take many seconds, feeling more like minutes, until a text selection plus copy action in Mac OS X is available for pasting in X11 – can this process be sped up? By prioritising components? -- Greetings Pete It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips. – Garfield
It obviously can't happen instantaneously, but we do have the synchronization happening in its own thread, so it is acted on as soon as the notification arrives. How much data are you trying to copy? On Feb 7, 2011, at 07:55, Peter Dyballa wrote:
Hello!
It can take many seconds, feeling more like minutes, until a text selection plus copy action in Mac OS X is available for pasting in X11 – can this process be sped up? By prioritising components?
-- Greetings
Pete
It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips. – Garfield
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Am 07.02.2011 um 19:59 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:
How much data are you trying to copy?
Usually less than 100 or 200 bytes. (Otherwise I would assume that more time is being consumed.) Maybe a limiting factor is also that I often copy from a web browser from which the text needs to be "purified", re-encoded, normalised,... With some CPU load it really takes a too long time. -- Greetings Pete Hard Disk, n.: A device that allows users to delete vast quantities of data with simple mnemonic commands.
Am 07.02.2011 um 16:55 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
It can take many seconds, feeling more like minutes, until a text selection plus copy action in Mac OS X is available for pasting in X11 – can this process be sped up?
Mac OS X is guilty! It also takes a long time to copy from one application (a browser or Mail) and paste into another (Mail or the browser). For seconds the last contents fron an old copy action is available. When copying from a PDF, for example in Skim, it can take tens of a second, without spinning beach ball which would indicate that the system is not operable at the moment. It seems like the copy action itself is deferred. X11 seems to work OK and reasonably fast. -- Greetings Pete How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a light-bulb? None. They just redefine "dark" as the new standard.
Interesting. I wonder what is bogging it down. Unfortunately, I recall you're on ppc, so you're stuck on Leopard, and there's not much chance of anything like that getting fixed for Leopard. When did this start to happen? Perhaps you've got something mucking things up. On Feb 11, 2011, at 05:30, Peter Dyballa wrote:
Am 07.02.2011 um 16:55 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
It can take many seconds, feeling more like minutes, until a text selection plus copy action in Mac OS X is available for pasting in X11 – can this process be sped up?
Mac OS X is guilty! It also takes a long time to copy from one application (a browser or Mail) and paste into another (Mail or the browser). For seconds the last contents fron an old copy action is available. When copying from a PDF, for example in Skim, it can take tens of a second, without spinning beach ball which would indicate that the system is not operable at the moment. It seems like the copy action itself is deferred. X11 seems to work OK and reasonably fast.
-- Greetings
Pete
How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a light-bulb? None. They just redefine "dark" as the new standard.
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Am 11.02.2011 um 21:23 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:
When did this start to happen?
Months ago... When TimeMachine (mds) is endlessly spinning, lengthy compilations are happening, it really can happen that copy and paste takes much longer than 10 sec.
Perhaps you've got something mucking things up.
FileVault is off, VM/swap is not scrambled. A software trying to motivate me to upgrade hard- and software? -- Greetings Pete Progress (n.): Process through which USENET evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals.
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