[Wine] Clipboard Syncing (does wine sync images or files)?

Vincent Povirk madewokherd at gmail.com
Sun Aug 29 21:55:15 CDT 2010


On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 3:28 AM, doh123 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Is this a Wine issue?  I've never tried copy and pasting anything but text in Wine... not sure I have any apps to run in Wine to easily test pictures.  Xquartz itself should sync the pasteboard and clipboard if the options are set right in preferences and work fine.  Gimp running in Xquartz for me is copy and pasting pictures fine.. in and out of X11.
>
> Make sure you have Xquartz 2.5.3 (latest release) and that you have its preferences under Pasteboard to enable syncing and all the options checked.  Theoretically it should work with Wine just fine...

Wine can only export and import images in the PIXMAP or image/bmp
format. This is rather unusual, and it could explain discrepancies
between Wine and other X11 applications.



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