this is a know issue. pl. see following mails http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-01/msg00157.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-01/msg00155.html
i got following links as the result of search at google Search condition >> "xwinclip" site:cygwin.com http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/xwinclip/ http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2003-01/msg00001.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2002-06/msg00006.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2002-12/msg00000.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2002-06/msg00009.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2002-06/msg00004.html --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could someone please point out what I am missing? > > Cygwin/XFree works rock-solid for me as an x-terminal to a remote host. > > However I cannot get -clipboard to work; Xwinclip works fine, but only if > I delay running it until I've logged in to the remote host and executed > "xhost +<my-pc-addr>". If I start Xwinclip sooner, it says: > > Xlib: connection to "<my-pc-addr>" refused by server > Could not open display, try: 1, sleeping:4 > > It gets up to try 3 in about 10 seconds, then quits. Logging into the > remote host takes up to a minute, after which xhost can be executed. > Starting Xwinclip late enough that not all tries are used up works ok. > > Is there some setting I'm missing? Or does -clipboard include a similar > timeout which could be extended? > > I've tried the telnet method described in the user guide, but it seems to > have the same problem. > > xwin.bat script is: > SET DISPLAY=<my-pc-addr>:0.0 > SET PATH=.;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH% > start /B XWin-Test79.exe -query <host-addr> -kb -clipboard -nowinkill > -nodecoration -unixkill -from <my-pc-addr> > > setting DISPLAY to 127.0.0.1:0.0 doesn't help. > > The system is win2000 with a 1 GHz pentium. > Extracting "clip" from the log gives: > ---------------- > % cat XWinrl.log|grep -i clip > winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface > winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitClipboard. > winInitClipboard () > winClipboardProc - Hello > winClipboardProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () > winClipboardProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. > winClipboardProc - Calling setlocale () > winClipboardProc - setlocale () returned > winClipboardProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. > winClipboardProc - XInitThreads failed. > ---------------- > > Many thanks > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > John Peters > CSIRO National Measurement Laboratory > PO Box 218 Phone: +61 2 9413 7503 > Lindfield NSW 2070 Fax: +61 2 9413 7202 > Australia Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
