copy and paste on Mac GnuCash

[Charles Day]

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Ian Smith-Heisters <i at idiosyncra.tc> wrote:

> 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
>

Hmm, I don't even have those.  But I'm also not using the newest dbus.
-Charles

$ find / -name \*dbus\*.plist 2>/dev/null
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus.plist
/opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus/org.macports.dbus.plist
/opt/local/var/macports/software/dbus/1.2.10_0+no_x11/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus.plist
/opt/local/var/macports/software/dbus/1.2.10_0+no_x11/opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus/org.macports.dbus.plist


> > -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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