Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:42 am Post subject: Is Copy Paste possible to OSX?
Just curious if copy and paste is possible between X11 and OS X apps? It seems I can copy and paste between OpenOffice and BBEdit, but not to other apps unless I first paste into BBEdit.
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:52 am Post subject:
In general, it's not possible to copy and paste betwen X11 and other OS X apps as X11 apps don't use Mac formats like styled text or graphics. The Mac has a very nice system of identifying what's on the clipboard and what format it is. Unfortunately, X11 has no such standard and as a result has very weak clipboard support.
Apple X11 provided some glue for getting plain text copy and paste to work, but to really get good integration with the OS X clipboard will require custom work to be done in OpenOffice.org...kinda like what Patrick's doing for Neo/J
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