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

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Change your language to US, and edit the preferences, then change it  
back.


On Mar 2, 2009, at 17:24, Shigenobu Hirose wrote:

> 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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