cut & paste between xmonad and macosx appl
Hi, I've been running xmonad on my macbook pro for a week now, and I really like it. The only knack I have is that cut-and-paste between mac appl to xterm/urxvt and vice versa stop working. Does anyone running xmonad on macosx 10.4 having this problem? Or did I overlooked something in my setup? I've tried different setting in my X11 prefs without effect. Hope someone can give me some leads. TIA, Quan
On Oct 3, 2007, at 18:23 , Quân Ta wrote:
I've been running xmonad on my macbook pro for a week now, and I really like it. The only knack I have is that cut-and-paste between mac appl to xterm/urxvt and vice versa stop working.
Does anyone running xmonad on macosx 10.4 having this problem? Or did I overlooked something in my setup? I've tried different setting in my X11 prefs without effect. Hope someone can give me some leads.
Cut and paste in XDarwin has always been iffy for me; I have seen claims that it is a bug that was introduced back in 10.2. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
I should have read the manpage for quartz-wm carefully! quartz-wm have the option --only-proxy, which make it act as a bridge between the pasteboard and X server clipboard, without getting in the way of managing the display. adding: "quartz-wm --only-proxy &" to my .xinitrc solve the problem. Happy XMonad!
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 05:56:28PM -0700, Qu?n Ta wrote:
I should have read the manpage for quartz-wm carefully! quartz-wm have the option --only-proxy, which make it act as a bridge between the pasteboard and X server clipboard, without getting in the way of managing the display.
adding: "quartz-wm --only-proxy &" to my .xinitrc solve the problem.
Yup! Two other potentially useful Mac-related things: * if you use unclutter, use the -grab option (thanks andrea :) * if you're looking to bind to the Cmd key, map it to mod4 (dunno why, but I couldn't get it working on mod2...) devin
quancta:
I should have read the manpage for quartz-wm carefully! quartz-wm have the option --only-proxy, which make it act as a bridge between the pasteboard and X server clipboard, without getting in the way of managing the display.
adding: "quartz-wm --only-proxy &" to my .xinitrc solve the problem.
Happy XMonad!
Could you summarise this as a small piece of text to go in the FAQ? -- Don
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:52:39AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
quancta:
adding: "quartz-wm --only-proxy &" to my .xinitrc solve the problem. Could you summarise this as a small piece of text to go in the FAQ?
Q: I'm using X11 for Mac OS X. When I switch from the quartz WM to xmonad, I lose copy/paste functionality between X windows and normal Mac apps. What's a poor sap to do? A: Add quartz-wm --only-proxy & in your .xinitrc above the line that runs xmonad. It will capture and syncronize copy/paste events in both environments. More specifically, it mirrors OS X copy actions into both PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD, but only CLIPBOARD into OS X paste. That wasn't exactly a *summary*, seeing as it ended up longer than quancta's form. At least it's in the right format...
me:
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:52:39AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
quancta:
adding: "quartz-wm --only-proxy &" to my .xinitrc solve the problem. Could you summarise this as a small piece of text to go in the FAQ?
Q: I'm using X11 for Mac OS X. When I switch from the quartz WM to xmonad, I lose copy/paste functionality between X windows and normal Mac apps. What's a poor sap to do?
A: Add quartz-wm --only-proxy & in your .xinitrc above the line that runs xmonad. It will capture and syncronize copy/paste events in both environments. More specifically, it mirrors OS X copy actions into both PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD, but only CLIPBOARD into OS X paste.
That wasn't exactly a *summary*, seeing as it ended up longer than quancta's form. At least it's in the right format... _______________________________________________ Xmonad mailing list Xmonad@haskell.org
Great, thanks. It'll be on the webpage shortly -- Don
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