copy and paste on Mac GnuCash

[Ian Smith-Heisters]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Ian Smith-Heisters <i at idiosyncra.tc>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Ian Smith-Heisters <i at idiosyncra.tc>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Des Dougan <des at douganconsulting.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Ian,
>> >> >
>> >> > On 26 Apr 2009, at 22:48, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Hey folks,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I think this probably isn't really a GnuCash question, but...
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I can't cut and paste from native Mac apps, say, OpenOffice
>> >> >> (installed
>> >> >> native Cocoa) to GnuCash (installed from MacPorts with +no_static,
>> >> >> +no_x11, -x11, +quartz in variants.conf). Any tips?
>> >> >
>> >> > You don't say what happens when you try; however, I run GnuCash,
>> >> > installed
>> >> > via fink. Under X11, I found that I need to use the ctrl key rather
>> >> > than
>> >> > the
>> >> > Command key for pasting in GnuCash. I routinely copy and paste from
>> >> > native
>> >> > apps (primarily TextEdit) to GnuCash.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Sorry for the lack of clarity. I cmd-c from the cocoa app, and neither
>> >> cmd-v nor ctrl-v (nor any other variants like option-v) work in
>> >> GnuCash. Furthermore, the Edit->Paste menu option is disabled.
>> >
>> > I have the same experience. I'm also compiling GnuCash without X11.
>> > Don't
>> > know what's wrong though, and no time to look at it. :(
>> > -Charles
>>
>> Seems to have been a problem with dbus. Once I got that running, Ctrl-V
>> worked.
>
> This may show my ignorance, but I thought that GnuCash would not even load
> preferences without dbus running. My GnuCash starts and finds all the
> preferences, but Ctrl-V doesn't work.
> So how did you know that dbus wasn't running, and how did you correct that?

I got a bunch of these in the terminal on startup:

"Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide
a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is
loaded!"

I fixed it with

$ sudo launchctl load -w
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
Password:
org.freedesktop.dbus-system: Already loaded
$ launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
launchctl: CFURLWriteDataAndPropertiesToResource(/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist)
failed: -10
$ gnucash

> -Charles
>>
>> -ISH
>>
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Part of the problem is that I'm not even sure what to google for. I
>> >> guess that this isn't actually X11, but the Quartz WM (per my compile
>> >> options)? Does anyone know what subsystem this actually is? What's the
>> >> difference between this and X11? Is there a preferences pane for it
>> >> somewhere? What should I google for?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Ian
>> >>
>> >> > HTH,
>> >> >
>> >> > Des
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> TIA,
>> >> >> Ian
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>> >> >
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>> >> >
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>> >> >
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