wine users - Apr 2008 - Getting clipboard information from X to go into wine?

Hello,

I am brand new to wine, so please forgive my noobiness :)

When I copy things in X,it does not go into wine. How might I fix this? A few
sites I have searched have mentioned editing some settings in a wine config
file, but I haven't been able to find mine. Am I supposed to create it
myself? If so, is there a basic one I can copy from somewhere and then modify (I
wasn't sure if the ones I found were updated to the latest version of wine)

thanks!

On 20/04/2008, vonkwink <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>  I am brand new to wine, so please forgive my noobiness :)
>  When I copy things in X,it does not go into wine. How might I fix this? A
few sites I have searched have mentioned editing some settings in a wine config
file, but I haven't been able to find mine. Am I supposed to create it
myself? If so, is there a basic one I can copy from somewhere and then modify (I
wasn't sure if the ones I found were updated to the latest version of wine)

There are a lot of cut'n'paste oddities between X and Wine, e.g.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7372
(and one more I can't find right now which is something to do with ole32)

or between Wine and Wine, for that matter:

http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4523

I would document the behaviour thoroughly (and reproducibly - note
problems in above bugs reproducing the problems) and see if it's an
existing bug or something new.


- d.

vonkwink wrote:
> When I copy things in X,it does not go into wine. 
What things? Just tries copying and pasting text - works fine. Are you doing
something more then just a text?

Hi, thanks for your responses.

Yes, even plain text does not seem to copy into wine. I can play with it some
more, I guess.

vonkwink wrote:
> Hi, thanks for your responses.
> 
> Yes, even plain text does not seem to copy into wine. I can play with it
some more, I guess.
Make sure you really _COPY_ not just select. By default Wine works with
"clipboard" not primary selection.