"Peter Valdemar Morch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > J. David Boyd david-at-adboyd.com |Lists| wrote: >> Okay, thanks, I'll start hanging out on the Cygwin/Xfree location. >> Makes sense, now I know where to start looking. >> Actually, I was under the impression that these lists didn't like or >> allow attachments. It must be list dependent. > > Man, that must be frustrating. Clipboard unreliability was the main > reason I switched from XThinPro to cygwin's X server. > >> Last week (two, three weeks ago?) I would have used the mouse to >> highlight the text in firefox (notepad, openoffice.org), then pressed >> Ctl-Ins to copy it into the clipboard. (Or clicked on copy in the >> menus, it worked either way.) Then I would have moved into my xterm, >> and type 'wget ' and then pressed shift-ins, to paste from the >> clipboard. I hit enter, and wget worked perfect. > > I can confirm that. That works here. > > Helping you grab at straws: > > You can see what is going on the with the windows clipboard run-time > with the clipboard viewer: > C:\WINNT\system32\clipbrd.exe > on my W2K. Is there any such thing in X, anybody? > > A few additional test cases: > > The middle mouse button is the scroll-wheel on my two-button+wheel > mouse. emacs calls it "mouse-2", and hitting CTRL and then pressing > that mouse-wheel-button, mouse-2, in an xterm gives me the "VT > Options" menu. Now you know what button I mean. > > * Same test case as before, put some text on the windows clipboard > (check with clipboard viewer) and then press the mouse-2 button (no > CTRL) in the xterm, that pastes the windows clipboard contents in > the xterm, right? (Note, no keyboard for paste) Here: yes - pass > > * Using the xterm, if you highlight something with the mouse (just > highlight - no keypresses) does that make it to the windows clipboard? > (As seen in the clipboard viewer?) Here: yes - pass > > I only use xemacs, and never emacs, but while looking at this, I started > emacs. It complained about my start up files, some of which are > xemacs-only, so that doesn't surprise me. But I saw that selecting > something in emacs and then hitting ctrl-ins didn't put it into the > windows clipboard - your symptoms. However, starting emacs as "emacs > -q" skipping the startup files altogether made emacs behave "right" > with my > clipboard. Does emacs -q work for you? (X)Emacs also has its own > "kill-ring" which just complicates matters... xterms are simpler! :-D > > And I don't think you've posted /tmp/XWin.log yet... > > Peter > > -- > Peter Valdemar Mørch > http://www.......... > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ > FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Well, I do see some errors occassionaly in my /tmp/XWin.log file, but, after rebooting the other morning, cut and paste is again working. It has quit working several times since then, but a quick reboot brings it back. Windows! Thanks for the info on clipbrd, I didn't know that was there, and it was a handy debugging tool. Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/