quartz-wm --help

[sao]

Did anybody tried....?
351 Sao @ ~ $ quartz-wm --help
usage: quartz-wm OPTIONS...
Aqua window manager for X11.

where OPTIONS... are any of:
--only-proxy Don't manage windows, just proxy
pasteboard between X11 and Cocoa.


It looks like you can start quartz-wm with:

"quartz-wm --only-proxy"

and then it'll be the cut-paste fixer but not a window manager.

(Running "quartz-wm --only-proxy" will activate the selection proxying features, but none of the window management code)

Use it to make copy and paste work with other window managers.

[ericw13]

Thanks for the post. I just added

/usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm --only-proxy &

to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc just before the command firing up the Blackbox WM.

Started X11.app, highlighted text in a terminal.app window, cmd-C to copy, and a quick option-click in the xterm pasted in the copied text just as I expected.

The reverse operation (highlight text in xterm, paste with cmd-V into terminal.app) does not seem to work like a normal xterm, but you can manually copy with cmd-C in xterm and cmd-V paste into another Aqua app...

For those who don't know already, option-click is the mapping for middle click in the 3-button mouse emulation, and the standard way of pasting text to an xterm. The standard way to copy text in an xterm is simply to highlight it with a click-and-drag.

Eric