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

Shigenobu Hirose shirose at jamstec.go.jp
Mon Mar 2 17:24:25 PST 2009


I've found that the following facts:
- Copy and paste (in fact) does work right after X11 2.3.2.1 is installed.
- Copy and paste doesn't work once
"~/Library/Preferences/org.x.X11.plist" is changed by modifying the
Preferences (e.g. checking "emulate 3 buttons").

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 09:30, Shigenobu Hirose <shirose at jamstec.go.jp> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 04:40, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> It looks that the preferences are the same as those in 2.3.1:
> - input
> -- 3 buttons (checked)
> -- keyboard layout
> -- X11 key (checked)
> - output
> -- color
> -- full screen mode
> -- sound effect
> - security
> -- Xauthority (checked)
> -- network client (checked)
> (The language in X11 is Japanese in my case. So the translations may
> not be correct).
>


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