In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Stahlman Brett typed: > Igor wrote: >> I'm not very familiar with the details of how the clipboard handling >> is implemented in Cygwin/X (though I do know that there is a choice >> of the external xwinclip application and the internal -clipboard >> handling). The way applications like Exceed seem to do it is by >> relinquishing clipboard ownership on losing focus, and reacquiring >> the clipboard on getting the focus. Perhaps this approach will also >> work for Cygwin/X? >> Igor > > It might work, but that would require all X applications to implement > a workaround for what appears to be a Cygwin X bug. This is the main > reason the Vim owner wouldn't include my patch, even though it fixes > the clipboard problem. I believe his reasoning is, "if the fault is > Cygwin X's, then so should be the remedy". While I agree in > principle, I will, of course, continue to use the patch until it's > fixed in Cygwin. Incidentally, you mentioned Exceed having had to > come up with a workaround as well. Is this problem known to the XWin > developers? I didn't see anything in the TODO, but I can't imagine > that something like this hasn't been reported by now.
>From your response I suspect you don't know what Exceed is. It is not another X app that has worked around this problem. It is a commercial X server for Windows. Igor is suggesting how that other X server may have worked around this problem for all X apps, and their approach could be copied to the Cygwin/X server. Cary -- 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/