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Is it possible to cut and paste from X Windows to the Mac desktop?

April 26, 2017cut desktop Mac paste possible Windows

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Is it possible to cut and paste from X Windows to the Mac desktop?

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X cannot cut and paste to the desktop because it is a true X server, rather than a Macintosh application. As a workaround you can copy your text to the X clipboard, then save the clipboard to a file and access the file from MachTen windows or with BBEdit.