[Xquartz-dev] xpbproxy Oct 29th 2008 test release

[Viv Kendon]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> On Oct 29, 2008, at 17:25, Viv Kendon wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> 
>>>> First, ^C to copy no longer works at all in RetroOffice.
>>> 
>>> So I think you're going to have to disable the CLIPBOARD->Pasteboard 
>>> option in the X11 pasteboard preferences.  It seems like you have some 
>>> complicated clipboard data that we're just not cacheing in xpbproxy.  That 
>>> should atleast get you back to your expected behavior... but you won't be 
>>> able to paste into OSX applications the data that you copied with ctrl-c. 
>>> You can only paste what you copy with cmd-c into OSX apps.
>>> 
>>> This isn't "the fix" but it should be a workaround for you for the time 
>>> being.
>> 
>> Not being certain which one you meant, I tried unchecking the second and 
>> the third options in the preferences in turn and both together.  None of 
>> these got back copying using ^C or ^X in RetroOffice.  ^V still only pastes 
>> what was copied with cmd-C.  Or do I have to restart X11 to get the 
>> preferences to take effect?  [it's late here, I'm turning in, will check 
>> back tomorrow]
>
> Disable the "Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes" and "Update CLIPBOARD 
> when Pasteboard changes". If you disable both of those, then xpbproxy should 
> be doing nothing at all with CLIPBOARD and you should have your CLIPBOARD 
> back.

Thanks, yes, unchecking both of these, closing X11, logging 
out and in again (for good measure) and I have sane 
cut'n'paste back within RetroOffice.  I can live with cmd-C 
to move stuff to OSX from X, I have to do that to get 
reliable copying from xerms anyway (you mentioned the reason 
in another thread).

-- Viv
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