On Dec 19, 2008, at 14:18, Peter Dyballa wrote:

Am 19.12.2008 um 20:09 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:

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Copying from Aqua to X11 does not work with blackboxwm. The other way 'round fails too! (I'm going now to bed.)

What do you mean "copying from Aqua to X11"? I mentioned absolutely nothing about copying or Aqua.

It was advertised that the X server now contains pbproxy and quartz-wm should not try to handle copy&paste. I organised my ~/.xinitrc file accordingly. When the X server does not support copy&paste, what is it then good for?

I don't understand your question. The X11 server does contain pbproxy,

So why is it impossible to exchange text selections between Aqua and X11?

Aqua is a look. I think you mean with NSPasteboard. It is working for me here on Tiger. Enable it in X11->Preferences-

Clipboard if you're not uqing quartz-wm. If you are using quartz- wm, you need to let quartz-wm handle the pasteboard since the Tiger quartz-wm doesn't have a way to disable it.

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but it doesn't contain a windoe manager.

That's clear. Therefore I am using blackbox.

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Therefore if you use quartz-wm you should disable the server's pbproxy.

(There is no visible means in the preferences pane.)

(a), you're not using quartz-wm, so you should leave it enabled. (b), it's in X11->Preferences->Clipboard

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Further, you should not have your own ~/.xinitrc.

How does X11 launch my Emacsen, gkrellm, sunclock, xterms? Why has X11 to be so different from common X11?

Define "common X11", and what exactly is "so different" ? Since you're using blackbox, enable fullscreen, and it'll be exactly like your blackbox experience on BSD. Or you can use the Applications menu to launch applications... --Jeremy