The data located there may be pasted by an X application using the paste command (typically ctrl-v). Using quartz-wm -only-proxy synchronizes the OS X clipboard with the X CLIPBOARD. This is because in X there are two independent methods of copy/paste, which can be referred to as using either the CLIPBOARD or the SELECTION. Maybe I have my X11 set up wrong, but even if I do, I can fix it with xclipboard. But then I can get it back by hitting the button in xclipboard, and use the same data anyway. I have also noticed that very often xclipboard displays my Aqua clipping automatically, but then if I click one of my target X11 apps, the previous X11 clip contents get pasted in, superseding what I just copied from Aqua. This is pretty low impact for getting things done. If I copy in Aqua, then click in xclipboard, then click in my target X11 app, I can paste there. It presents the current contents of the X clipboard, and will also keep a list of clippings that have been made. This has made a big difference (and seems to have exposed a bug). Recently I discovered the little X11 utility xclipboard (included with Apple's X11). The Aqua clipboard would seemingly never paste into anything except xterm - and that required the stupid option-click nonsense. Copy from X11 and paste into Aqua works fine, but not the other way. I have had a major problem doing a copy from Aqua and paste into X11. Naturally, I often need to interoperate between these servers and my 10.3.5 native applications. At my job, I use X11 nonstop to access various application servers.
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