Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Thu, 08 Jan 2004 10:00:59 -0500:
> �yvind Harboe wrote: > > A good configuration option is no configuration option :-) > > Is there any reason not to make -clipboard default for XWin once the > > current round of changes are out of the door? > > In the past xwinclip crashed intermittantly and it clobbered the clipboard, so > > -clipboard > > not being default made sense. > > I have already been thinking about it. > I'll eventually make -clipboard the default and add a -noclipboard > option to disable it. > That is what we have typically done for all features that newly reach > stabililty. It could be argued that if the -query or -broadcast option is also being used the default should remain -noclipboard. Most (remote) display managers turn on X authentication and prevent the internal clipboard client from connecting to its own Cygwin/X server. This results in the client wasting its time doing it's start-up retries. This isn't a huge waste - more a niggle. If the inter-clipboard functionality is eventually re-coded into the server end instead of being an X-client it will avoid the authentication problem and the default can be changed to 'enabled' in all cases. Discuss? -- Sam Edge
