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Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell
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Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell

by Andy Lester, Chris Stone, Chuck Toporek, Jason McIntosh
November 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
24h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Aqua-X11 Interactions

Since X11-based applications rely on different graphics systems, even when running XDarwin in rootless mode, you would not necessarily expect to see GUI interactions run smoothly between these two graphics systems. But actually, there are several such interactions that run very well.

First, it is possible to open X11-based applications from the Terminal application. To launch an X11-based application from the Terminal, use the open-x11 command as follows:

$ open-x11 /sw/bin/gimp

You can also copy and paste between X11 and Mac OS X applications . For example, to copy from an xterm window, select some text with your mouse and use the standard Macintosh keyboard shortcut to copy, -C. This places the selected text into the clipboard. To paste the contents of the clipboard into a Mac OS X application (such as the Terminal), simply press -V to paste the text.

To copy from a Mac OS X application, highlight some text and press -C. The copied text can be pasted into an xterm window by pressing the middle button of a three-button mouse or by Option-clicking in the X11 application.

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