Sharing the Mac OS X clipboard with the internal X server

Sharing the Mac OS X clipboard with the internal X server I'd like to be able to copy and paste between native (Cocoa?) MacOS X apps and those running under Mac's internal X server.
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"You can enable clipboard sync by editing ~/Library/Preferences/org.x.X11.plist and adding the following five boolean keys1 (and checking them).

sync_clipboard_to_pasteboard
sync_pasteboard
sync_pasteboard_to_clipboard
sync_pasteboard_to_primary
sync_primary_on_select

Restart X11 and they should be synchronized properly.

Edit: You can add the keys either with the Property List Editor or with the following Terminal commands:

defaults write org.x.X11 sync_clipboard_to_pasteboard -boolean true
defaults write org.x.X11 sync_pasteboard -boolean true
defaults write org.x.X11 sync_pasteboard_to_clipboard -boolean true
defaults write org.x.X11 sync_pasteboard_to_primary -boolean true
defaults write org.x.X11 sync_primary_on_select -boolean true

An alternative solution is to install the latest version of XQuartz which exposes these options through the X11 Preferences >> Pasteboard panel."