I had tried it and had some problems that I thought were related - I'll give it another try, though. I'm struggling a bit with X11, I think, so perhaps it has more to do with that. Thanks for the X11 links.

Sorry, I probably wasn't clear - I saw the X11 workaround changing the pasteboard preferences. I'm trying to avoid changing them back and forth because I need to be able to paste between OSX and X11 in other programs. I suppose the only thing to do is wait for the fix.

I've read (and experienced) the bug on copying and pasting in MaxOS: ================================ Bug reports: Bug #307005 in Inkscape: “[OS X] copy & paste inserts a bitmap copy instead of the vector object” XQuartz ticket #403: "Copy/Paste in Inkscape pastes bitmaps" ============...