Re: gEDA-user: [gattrib] OS X cut/paste

[Martin Maney <maney@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:36:35PM -0700, John Doty wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2007, at 9:19 PM, Dave N6NZ wrote:
> >    Is there something wacky about OS X's implementation of X11
> > w.r.t. copy/paste, or have I stumbled into a gattrib bug? When in
> > gattrib, I can select and copy (or at least appear to copy) data
> > from a cell, but the "paste" menu entry never activates.
> 
> I've never seen menu paste activate in OSX X11. Paste current  
> selection, X11-style, using option-click or middle click. However:

Using the version packaged in Ubuntu Gutsy (200706-something), I had
rather the opposite experience: the usual X11 mouse select/paste has
never worked for me, but the (right-click context menu) paste does. 
Well, except when it doesn't, but I'm not sure if the pins tab is
supposed to be of any use - the only thing I tired to fixup that way
ran into "can't paste" (probably only tried to use context menu?) as
well as "you can type new text in but it will be reverted" (when focus
leaves that cell, IIRC), so I went back to hacking in a text editor.

I've also found that gattrib (only) is quite dysfunctional when working
remotely through an ssh tunnel.  gschem and pcb both work fine, albeit
very, very slowly for some things (or all things when the tubes are
feeling clogged), but in gattrib I never get anything but a hollow
cross mouse pointer and can't do anything to the data cells (scrolling,
menus, etc. work okay).  The X server in this case is on a Feisty
install, client on the same Gutsy machine.

> This works from gattrib to other apps, but it doesn't work when  
> gattrib is the destination of the paste.

I think this directionality matches my experience.  I'm sure the "can't
paste from elsewhere into gattrib" part is ringing a bell.

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