[Xquartz-dev] pbproxy-13 (a pasteboard proxy for XQuartz)

[George Peter Staplin]

Quoted xquartz-dev.5.mzs at spamgourmet.com:

> Oh my goodness, I just noticed I had this in my postpoed list and had not
> sent to the list.
>
> Hi George,

Hi mzs,

> First thanks for the great work with copy/paste. I was able to test it out
> and even copy a small image, fantastic.

You're welcome.  I'm glad it works.

> I have a suggestion for an improvement. Since the 8-bit does not work well
> with X11.app I used Xvnc and Screen Sharing to run those set of programs.
>
> I have some some scripts I use to sync-up the OS X paste board and the X11
> selection which I have as menu items in my .twmrc:
>
> $ head bin/xpb bin/pbx
> ==> bin/xpb <==
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # X selection to Paste-buffer
> xsel -p | pbcopy
>
> ==> bin/pbx <==
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # Paste-buffer to X selection
> pbpaste | xsel -c
>
> That works a lot of the time but not for really big amounts of data and
> sometimes characters get messed-up. So I have to do things like cat into a
> file or /dev/null, use terminal.app as a go between, scp, etc - ie lots
> of anying workarounds in various cases.

I can imagine how that would be tricky.

> It would be really nice if pbproxy detected the un-presence of the AppleWM
> extentsion and still ran in the background. I am guessing it is only doing
> that for syncing-up with the preferences and handling the edit -> copy
> menu and keyboard shortcut. You would not need to worry about the first
> case and the second could be handled with a SIGUSR1 handler. Then people
> that don't use X11.app could have this great tool. I would simply put a
> killall -USR1 pbproxy in my .twmrc for example.

It should work without AppleWM in that way.  The sources to  
pbproxy/xpbproxy are available in the 1.4 apple branch of the  
freedesktop xserver git respository.  If you could implement the  
changes necessary, without breaking the code when it's used with  
AppleWM that would help.

> Again thanks for all the very good and appreciated work.

I'm glad it's useful to you and others.  It's a group effort, so I  
can't take all of the credit.  :)


George
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