[Xquartz-dev] new xpbproxy

[John Koren]

Sorry, I meant cmd-c in X11, of course.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:10 AM, John Koren <jpkoren at gmail.com> wrote:
> I should have added, that this problem occurs only at the beginning,
> right after I start up X11.
> As soon as I, issue cmd-v in the X11, the problem is gone and I can
> continue copying text simply by highlighting in X11. If I do not issue
> cmd-v in X11 at least one time before trying to paste into OSX
> application, the problem occurs.
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Peter Collinson <pc at hillside.co.uk> wrote:
>> I cannot repeat this... it seems to work fine for me on my G4 or Intel
>> boxes.
>>
>> Either selecting a region or selecting and using with Cmd-C in xterm
>> allows me to Cmd-V it into textedit.
>> The Cmd-C is not needed.
>>
>> This is great stuff - thanks Jeremy and George for this.
>>
>> On 16 Oct 2008, at 08:55, John Koren wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jeremy
>>>
>>> Thanks for fixing item 2), which caused xpbproxy from not starting
>>> correctly on my Powerbook G4.
>>>
>>> I still, however, have a strange problem.  I am trying to select  text
>>> in rxvt or xterm and paste it to an OSX application (e.g., TextEdit).
>>>
>>> Let me first describe how I can get it to work correctly:
>>>
>>> 1) Copy text in xterm with cmd-c and paste in TextEdit with cmd-v.
>>> 2) After that I can simply select text in xterm (without cmd-v) and
>>> paste it TextEdit with cmd-v, which I think is the correct behavior.
>>>
>>> Now, if I skip step 1) described above and start with step 2, in which
>>> text is simply highlighted, the problem occurs. I see the following
>>> once I try to paste:
>>>
>>> 1) Pasting does not work.
>>> 2) The X11 windows become difficult to move as dragging becomes very
>>> spasmodic.
>>> 3) The cpu associated with xpbproxy grows from 0% to 2.5% and never
>>> subsides.
>>> 4) X11 becomes unusable and I have to quit it.
>>>
>>> I hope my description is clear. This is a fully repeatable behavior.
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Jeremy Huddleston
>>> <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
>>>> http://people.freedesktop.org/~jeremyhu/xpbproxy-20081015.bz2
>>>>
>>>> This is a slight bugfix and feature addition for xpbproxy.  Just
>>>> download,
>>>> decompress, and replace /usr/X11/bin/xpbproxy with this one (you need
>>>> 2.3.2_beta1 first).
>>>>
>>>> Fixes/new features:
>>>>
>>>> 1) The "Update pasteboard immediately" option in the preferences
>>>> pane is now
>>>> implemented.  You can now automatically copy something when you
>>>> select it.
>>>> Note however that there is a small caveat to this.  We have *NO*
>>>> way of
>>>> knowing that you have selected new text in an application.  If you
>>>> select
>>>> some text in an app then select new text in that app and you're
>>>> left with
>>>> the original text in the pasteboard, there's absolutely nothing
>>>> whatsoever
>>>> that we can do to fix this.  Try prodding the developer of that
>>>> application
>>>> to re-acquire the PRIMARY buffer on selection even if they already
>>>> have it.
>>>> GTK, QT, and other toolkits do this already, but there may be some
>>>> rogue
>>>> apps out there.
>>>>
>>>> 2) CLIPBOARD->Pasteboard should now be working properly.  We were
>>>> incorrectly detecting that a CLIPBOARD_MANAGER was already running
>>>> (thus
>>>> disabling this feature) when it really wasn't.  My bad.
>>>>
>>>> Known issues:
>>>> * Some image conversion / unrecognized mime types may still exist.
>>>> If you
>>>> can't copy an image of a specific format from OSX to X11 or visa
>>>> versa,
>>>> please file a bug in our trac with the image attached.
>>>> * nedit's copied text doesn't end up in the Pasteboard even though
>>>> it can be
>>>> pasted to other X11 apps from CLIPBOARD (workaround is cmd-c)
>>>> * MULTIPLE not supported yet
>>>> * CUT_BUFFER* not supported yet
>>>>
>>>> --Jeremy
>>>>
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