[Xquartz-dev] 1.4.2-apple20

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Oct 23, 2008, at 14:34, robert delius royar wrote:

> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 (13:34 -0700 UTC) Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:43, robert delius royar wrote:
>>
>>> I installed 2.3.2-beta1 and X11-1.4.2-apple20 on my 10.5.5 G5.  I  
>>> found that I could no longer paste text from X11 xterms or from  
>>> XEmacs into Safari's address window or forms.  I also discovered  
>>> that I could not paste any text from CoCoa-based text widgets into  
>>> XEmacs or xterms.  I could do this fine without any clipboard  
>>> managers in XQuartz 2.3.1 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple17). [I reverted  
>>> to send this message and just Command-V'ed the server's  
>>> identification from the X11 about box into this xterm.]  I logged  
>>> out after installing the newer versions and logged back in, so I  
>>> do not think that was the problem.  However, I would have thought  
>>> that someone else would have reported having these problems by  
>>> now.  So I wonder whether I have neglected to install some part I  
>>> need.
>>
>> Do you have a custom ~/.xinitrc ?? If so, you need to execute /usr/ 
>> X11/bin/xpbproxy in it.
>
> I do not have an .xinitrc, but I do launch a script instead of an  
> xterm using the set defaults variable for that.
>
> Where would xpbproxy be launched?

/usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/99-quartz-wm.sh

>  Maybe it is not being launched correctly on my system.  My startup  
> script runs a number of programs.

This is done by xinit.

Check 'ps x | grep pb'

>>> I also noticed that I could get to a point (happened twice) where  
>>> the new version needed to be forced quit because clicking on  
>>> windows would not raise them.  This happened when switching from  
>>> Safari to an X11 window (or trying to switch).  I had it happen  
>>> twice before I decided to revert to the earlier version (i.e.  
>>> XQuartz 2.3.1 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple17)).
>>
>> Did you happen to take a trace or save the crash report for this?
>
> I looked for a crash report.  There were none.  There are two hang  
> reports, but they do not tell anything useful.

They probably do reveal something useful... Please send them.

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