On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 07:44:38AM -0600, Jim Graham wrote:
> I have been having trouble with cut/paste to/from X11 (xterm, as an example) 
> since upgrading to High Sierra from Lion about a week ago.  I appear to get a 
> bunch of
> lines, but if I do this in vim (gvim once I get vim to compile with the GUI), 
> and then use a CTRL-L to refresh the screen, I can see that nothing was 
> actually pasted into the screen at all.
> 
> In Lion, I had a program I found called autocutsel that sat in the background
> and got it to work seemlessly 100% of the time, but it’s no longer working
> (no doubt needs an upgraded version for High Sierra).  This appears to be the
> same instability between the X11 pasteboard and the clipboard that’s been
> around at least as far back as Lion.  The options in XQuartz are all setup
> for this to work, but it doesn’t.
...

xterm's had (since #209) a feature selectable by menu (control/middle-mouse,
"Select to Clipboard") which makes it copy the selection to the clipboard
to accommodate non-ICCM clients such as Mozilla/etc.  In #328, I added a
new menu entry (control/right-mouse "Allow Mouse Ops"), to suppress the
application's mouse-mode altogether (which comes in handy with XQuartz,
which has persistent problems acquiring the selection anyway: no shifting
needed to just select/paste).

However, XQuartz comes with patch #326; MacPorts has #330.
Neither is current: #331 came out at the end of December.

For reference -
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net

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