Re: Mac OS X cut and paste

[John Harper <jsh unfactored org>]

On Jul 30, 2004, at 7:56 AM, Perry Smith wrote:
> My question is about cut and paste from an X11 window to a native Mac 
> application.  If I use Apple's quartz-wm, the process of cutting from 
> X11 and pasting to a native application is to select the text using 
> normal X11 mouse techniques, then pick Cut from the edit menu of 
> Apple's X11 application.  At that point I can paste the text into any 
> native Mac window using Comnand-V.  To go the other direction is even 
> simpler.  I simply cut (or copy) using Command-C and then paste into 
> the X11 with the normal technique (^Y for emacs, button 2 for xterm, 
> etc)
>
> If I kill quartz-wm and start up sawfish, I can no longer to this.  I 
> also tried mwm running from an AIX platform and it had the same 
> problem.

you can run "quartz-wm --only-proxy", in this mode it won't manage any 
windows, but it will copy the pasteboard contents between X11 and 
native applications,

	John