[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_beta1

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Sat Oct 11 09:40:39 PDT 2008


On Oct 11, 2008, at 01:04, John Koren wrote:

> Jeremy
>
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com 
> > wrote:
>> cmd-v should never work.  There's no way to use it in X11.app, and  
>> it's not
>> an option in the edit menu.
>
> What I meant was that normally to copy  text  from, e.g. xterm or
> rxvt, to a MacOS application, e.g. Word, one would do command-c in
> xterm and command-v in Word. This did not seem work when xpbproxy was
> running, but now it does.
>
> In my X11.app I have all check marks related to pasteboard turned on.
>
> Since I have my own .xinitrc, I added the following to it:
> exec /usr/X11/bin/xpbproxy &
> exec /usr/bin/quartz-wm

Do this instead:

/usr/X11/bin/xpbproxy &
exec /usr/bin/quartz-wm

> This results in a error message " A clipboard manager is already
> running.  pbproxy will not sync clipboard to pasteboard." being
> written in the system log.
>
> I then tried:
> xec /usr/X11/bin/xpbproxy &
> exec /usr/bin/quartz-wm --no-pasteboard
>
> which, got rid of the message

--no-pasteboard does nothing on 2.3.1 since it defaults to --no- 
pasteboard.  It shouldn't have any effect.  Plus quartz-wm doesn't  
grab CLIPBOARD_MANAGER.  Do you have xclipboard running?

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