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| -rw-r--r-- | man/man3/getsnarf.3 | 14 |
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diff --git a/man/man3/getsnarf.3 b/man/man3/getsnarf.3 index 17456349..6c236e76 100644 --- a/man/man3/getsnarf.3 +++ b/man/man3/getsnarf.3 @@ -35,3 +35,17 @@ and will convert as necessary. .SH SOURCE .B \*9/src/libdraw/x11-itrans.c +.SH SEE ALSO +.IR snarfer (1) +.SH BUGS +On OS X, there are two snarf buffers: the Carbon snarf buffer +used by native OS X applications, and the X11 snarf buffer, +used by X11 applications. +Whenever new text is written to the Carbon snarf buffer, the OS X X11 +implementation automatically copies that text to the X11 snarf buffer. +The reverse is not done automatically, arguably a bug in the X11 server. +To work around this, +.I putsnarf +writes to both the Carbon snarf buffer and the X11 snarf buffer. +To work around this bug in remote or non-Plan 9 X11 clients, run +.IR snarfer (1). |