Comment 32 for bug 307005

Hi Cory, try going into XQuartz's Preferences, click the Pasteboard tab, and uncheck "Enable Syncing"—this should allow you to copy from an Inkscape window and paste it into an inkscape window, creating a copy that is vector (instead of making a bitmap copy).

Something I do frequently is copy text outside of inkscape and paste it into inkscape. To do this, I have to check Enable Syncing (and I also have all the other boxes checked underneath the Enable Syncing check box). So, to copy and paste from inkscape to inkscape, I uncheck Enable Syncing. But to copy outside of inkscape and paste into inkscape, I uncheck Enable Syncing