Hello, I've been using Cygwin/XFree86 Test Series quite happily for a few weeks now, current snapshot is Test91.
However, I've never quite gotten xwinclip (now included in server) to work properly. At startup I am able to copy/paste text between X and Windows, but at this stage my X selection gets lost (de-selected, whatever) almost immediately; the text _is_ in the buffer, I can paste it to another X client via Mouse button 2, but the selected text is no longer highlighted, making it impossible to work on it any further (e.g.: I can't delete selected text in nedit (Motif text editor) using the backspace key, similar problems in xemacs, kate (KDE3) etc.). After some period of time (say, an hour or so) the behaviour changes: the text in X stays selected but it no longer winds up in the WinNT clipboard. Might be some application I use that triggers this, haven't a clue yet. OS: Windows NT 4.0 SP 6 Graphics hardware: Matrox Dualhead (G450 AGP, Driver 4.70.011) X startup: start ..\..\usr\X11r6\bin\XWin -noreset -ac -nowinkill -clipboard -fullscreen %1 (from KDE3.1.1 script startkde_small.bat) Minimal KDE startup: bin\kdeinit +kicker +kwin Clients used: - konsole (KDE3.1.1 for cygwin) - xterm (remote; AIX & Solaris) - nedit (remote; AIX & Solaris) - xemacs (remote; Solaris) - Sniff+ (remote; AIX & Solaris) Any ideas anyone? Cheers, Mark. ---------------------------------------------------------- current XWin.log: ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 2560 h 1024 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file InitOutput - Error reading config file winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001b InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw winAdjustVideoModeShadowDD - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowDD - Not changing video mode winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowDD - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitClipboard. winInitClipboard () winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning InitOutput - Returning. winClipboardProc - Hello winClipboardProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () (==) Using preset keyboard for "German (Germany)" (00000407), type "4" (EE) No primary keyboard configured (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 1280 512 winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted winClipboardProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP winClipboardProc - Calling setlocale () winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned winClipboardProc - setlocale () returned winClipboardProc - XInitThreads () returned. winClipboardProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. 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