[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_beta1
Jeremy Huddleston
jeremyhu at apple.com
Sat Oct 11 16:42:35 PDT 2008
On Oct 11, 2008, at 10:34, Dave Ray wrote:
> I can copy text from xterm -> Textedit, but NOT Eterm -> Textedit.
> Perhaps I need to recompile that with a flag of some sort.
What happens if you have xterm open with text selected in eterm and
you middle click in xterm?
> I can copy graphics from Preview -> Gimp, Photoshop -> Gimp and
> Graphic Converter -> Gimp.
> I can NOT copt graphics from Gimp -> any graphics app in OS-X.
How are you doing this? cmd-c should not do that. Gimp does not put
images into PRIMARY. You need to use CLIPBOARD (gimp's edit->copy).
> To copy from an X11 app to OS-X, I select the text/graphic, then use
> command-C in the OS-X menu
Gimp doesn't put the image into PRIMARY. cmd-c just copies what's in
PRIMARY to the pasteboard. You need to do edit->copy in gimp.
> Another observation:
> If the selected text/graphic is selected, and then deselected, the
> normal X11 behavior is to keep the last selected item in the X11
> clipboard buffer
I think you're confusing CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY.
> , even without explicitly using keys to copy. This is
> because X11 doesn't have global copy/paste keys like OS-X. I found
> that if I deselect the selected item in X11, and then use command-C,
> the item is in the X11 buffer but not copied to the OS-X clipboard.
Nope. I just tried this. Selected text in urxvt, deselected, edit-
>copy, then pasted into this Mail.app window to get what was selected
pasted here (expected behavior).
> This is probably by design but I wanted to be sure.
No, it is actually impossible to architect the behavior you are
describing because we have no way to know that the text was deselected.
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> If you are getting this message, pbproxy is still being launched
>>> somehow, even though it is not in your .xinitrc.
>>
>> Or any other application that claims the CLIPBOARD_MANAGER atom
>> (xclipboard, klipper, etc).
>
> So, does this mean the message "pbproxy will not sync clipboard.." is
> a generic message that will be displayed in the startup logs if there
> is any conflict, even if pbproxy is not installed?
xpbproxy will report that error message if it attempts to acquire the
CLIPBOARD_MANAGER atom, but another X11 client has already acquired
it. In other words, if you run xclipboard, pbproxy, klipper, gnome-
clipboard-manager, etc before xpbproxy, you'll get that message and
syncing from CLIPBOARD to PB will be disabled.
--Jeremy
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