Copy/Paste between Aqua and quartz-wm, possible?

[phidauex]

I was under the impression that copy and paste between aqua and quartz-wm was functional, but I'm only getting one-way functionality..

Using x-chat, I can copy things from the xchat window, and paste them into aqua applications (such as chimera). However, if I try to copy something from an aqua application, like a URL, and paste it into xchat, i get nothing.

My .xinitrc file contains only the basics:
source /sw/bin/init.sh
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm

I don't have any other window managers installed, to my knowledge, nor do I have Xdarwin installed.

Any ideas on why this might be? I'd love to be able to paste URLs from chimera into xchat, but if its not possible with this version of X11, then I can live with it, I just feel like maybe i've done something wrong.

thanks,
sam

[phidauex]

Doh. I answered my own question. command-v doesn't work for pasting, middle click does! If you have middle click emulation turned on in the X11 preferences, it it option-command-click, and it happily pastes whatever is in the clipboard!

peace,
sam

[ClarkGoble]

Yeah. X11 apps are inconsitent on this matter. Originally back in the old Motif days middle click, left click and right click did a lot of the cut and paste. XTerm holds onto that heritage. (Oh how I hated those old MIPS machines!) Fortunately most recent applications have moved towards the Macintosh and Windows way of doing things.

Be aware, however, that the shift between clipboards still isn't that great. You can copy and paste text. However graphics and other rich-data formats don't work too well. This is one of the many problems with using Gimp or Open Office, for example.

[bluehz]

I have been using Apple X11 and blackbox as my WM instead of quartz-wm ... and NONE of the known standards for copy/paste work at all. Hope it gets fixed soon.... or maybe someone knows a workaround. Even tried autocutsel...

[ClarkGoble]

Back when I used Blackbox for a week I found you had to manually type autocutselect (or whatever the command is) to switch clipboards. Every time. That's partially why I don't like how unstable my version of KDE is under X11.app. The ability to cut and paste reliably makes up for it. It is also why I don't run other Window Managers.