copy and paste on Mac GnuCash

[Ian Smith-Heisters]

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Well, I just tried following my own suggestions, and they don't work
now. So I guess DBUS wasn't the issue. Back to square one.

>>
>> > -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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>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > --
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Des Dougan, Principal
>> >> >> > Dougan Consulting Group Inc.
>> >> >> >
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>> >> >> >
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>> >> >> >
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>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
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