The Cut, Copy & Paste Daemon in OS X
Ever seen com.apple.pboard in a launchctl list? Â Wondered what it did? Â This is the infamous clipboard (aka – pasteboard, or on the iPhone the NSPasteboard server). Â If you unload the pboard entry in launchctl then you will no longer be able to cut, copy and paste. Â pboard relies on the existence of and the accessibility to the user that initiated pboard (ie – root) to have access to the /tmp folder. Â Therefore, pboard will be wonky without /tmp and without pboard you won’t be able to paste things. Â So, when troubleshooting cut, copy and paste issues, first verify that /tmp exists and then verify that pboard is running using the following command:
launchctl list | grep com.apple.pboard
And if it isn’t running, start it with:
launctl start com.apple.pboard
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