> On Dec 15, 2016, at 11:00, Schneider <schne...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: > > Alexander: > >> The list archives exist in multiple places, though those aren't all >> currently in the email footers. >> https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/?source=navbar has links to >> the direct sourceforge list archives. > > Ok. I found it awkward to use. One has to go to the end of the list > that appears from a search for 'xfig' - and then it is not easy to > find the relevant postings. I didn't find the discussion if there was > one … >
We have literally no control over that, sorry. >> We can probably make an older xfig available, but it would take a bit >> of effort. > > That would be good! > >> There's an immediate (albeit ugly) workaround, however, which is to >> copy your text from another window and paste it into an xfig text box. > > I put text into my OS X buffer but it doesn't paste into the window. It does for me. For example, I just now entered some text in an OS X Terminal window, selected and copied it, and then used middle-click (since I have a two-button mouse with a scroll wheel here) to paste the text into a file dialogs in xfig. > > I found that I have the old xfig binary but it now doesn't allow > typing in text boxes either! I suspect that my switch to XQuartz is > responsible. Does anyone know about this? How do I switch back to > X11? > > Tom > > Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. > Senior Investigator > National Institutes of Health > National Cancer Institute > Center for Cancer Research > Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory > Molecular Information Theory Group > Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 > schne...@mail.nih.gov > https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link) > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) It’s possible that the update to XQuartz broke keystroke entry into the file dialogs here, but I haven’t found any reports about it yet other than here so I don’t know for sure. XQuartz is the only supported Xwindows option for 10.8 +. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
