[Xquartz-dev] copy and paste doesn't work

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Mon Mar 2 11:40:46 PST 2009


On Mar 2, 2009, at 05:35, Shigenobu Hirose wrote:

>> Do you have it enabled in the preferences?
>> How do you expect it to work?
>> What are you doing that shows it not working?
>> open xterm, select text, goto the edit menu and select copy.  Goto
>> TextEdit.app, goto the edit menu and select paste.  Does that work?
> This is how I expect it to work, but it doesn't work; nothing is
> pasted in TextEdit.app. (If something has been copied in a native
> application, then that is pasted rather than what was copied in
> xterm). The opposite direction (native application -> X11 application)
> is exactly in the same situation.
>
> It doesn't work with X11 2.3.2.1, but it does work with X11 2.3.1. So
> I think settings in the preferences are OK.

Please verify the preferences.  They were added in 2.3.2.



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