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quartz-wm --only-proxy
Authored by: sao on May 17, '03 02:54:00PM

Bluehz,

Check the "Public Beta FAQ" for Apple's X11 v0.3 here:

http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1232.html

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Q: How do I make copy and paste work with other window managers?

A: Running quartz-wm --only-proxy will activate the selection proxying features, but none of the window management code.

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Also at the forums, if you make a search, you will find two threads about the subject:

1- copying between aqua and x11

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10824&highlight=quartzwm+onlyproxy

2- quartz-wm --help

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9329&highlight=quartzwm+onlyproxy


Cheers...

Sao



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quartz-wm --only-proxy
Authored by: galexand on Jan 04, '06 12:57:34PM

A websearch for this issue reveals the same faulty answer over and over "just use quartz-wm --only-proxy". Excuse me, this addresses half of the problem, has no one tested this over at Apple, or is documentation just a fad that hasn't caught on yet there?

Anyways, here is how you use quartz-wm for cut and paste without --only-proxy:
X11 to Aqua: highlight the text normally, then select Copy from the X11 menu, then paste it as normal.
Aqua to X11: "copy" the text normally, then paste the text normally

Here is how you use quartz-wm for cut and paste with --only-proxy:
X11 to Aqua: hah hah! fooled you! you thought --only-proxy solved the problem, didn't you? Nope!! No help here!
Aqua to X11: "copy" the text normally, then paste the text normally.

I've seen people point this out in detail only to be replied to with that same awful Apple FAQ answer over and over again on dozens of forums throughout the intarweb. The Apple FAQ is a cancer.

Anyways, pbcopy and pbpaste are great commandline tools that you can use to get around this problem. You just pipe data to/from these and it "does the right thing" to the Aqua "pasteboard."



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