[Xquartz-dev] pbproxy - a copy/paste proxy for XQuartz

[Dave Ray]

I installed the pbproxy package on my system, which runs Enlightenment  
window manager and does not use quartz-wm. Wanted to give some feedback.

I used install.sh, the behavior of copy/paste was the same as before  
the installer. I ran top at the terminal to see what was running, and  
pbproxy was not running. So I just ran it by hand: sudo pbproxy &  And  
then all the copy-paste operations worked great. I'm not sure how the  
installer intended to set up pbproxy to run, but you might want to  
adjust the installer so pbproxy runs even when there's a different  
window manager being used.

Text copied fine between Textedit and the terminal, graphics copied  
fine between Preview and Gimp. I did not test RTF text. What I did  
test worked perfectly. Hooray!

One issue to note with X11.app, the Copy and Paste commands in the OS- 
X menu, when X11.app is in front, Paste is still greyed out when there  
is a clipboard buffer. I could paste using the X11 app's own separate  
menu, but I could not hit command-V. Is this bug documented?

On my system, I choose not to run quartz-wm at all, so all I really  
need to do is add pbproxy to my .xinitrc:

source /etc/bashrc
pbproxy &
exec /usr/local/bin/e16

If pbproxy ends up embedded in another binary, I'll just take out the  
2nd line.
Hope this feedback is useful. Let me know if you see any issues with  
my setup or if you want more info.
Dave