Also - tried GVim, and it locked when I only got one character highlighted. Tried minTTY, and it works perfectly (of course it's not X-based). The cut-and-paste works flawlessly.
Again, why "X" highlighting and cut-and-paste worked yesterday and not today is the real mystery. The machine has been rebooted numerous times as well - to no avail. Brian Kelly -----Original Message----- >From: Brian Kelly >Sent: Sep 14, 2010 2:52 PM >Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text > >Thanks Jon for the quick reply. I attached a new log file generated with an >attempt to highlight - followed by the "hang". > >Again, this worked PERFECTLY just yesterday. I ran a chkdsk on my system just >about an hour ago, and while it repaired a few files, the problem remains. > >I'll try your -noclipboard suggestion, but unfortunately for me, I do a lot of >pasting back and forth between cygwin and native windows. I may have to go >back to using the CMD based bash shell console window that is the cygwin >default. > >Not relishing that thought ... > >Re-imaging my machine is not really an option either - that could set me back >a "week". > >Brian Kelly > > > >-----Original Message----- >>From: Jon TURNEY >>Sent: Sep 14, 2010 1:47 PM > >>Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text >> >>On 14/09/2010 18:51, Brian Kelly wrote: >>> I've been using Cygwin X trouble-free for years, and am running the latest >>> distribution of X and the Cygwin1.dll for at least two weeks (since the >>> Cygwin 1.7.7.1 release). It's been fine until this morning when it started >>> locking on me whenever I used the mouse to highlight text. I have NO IDEA >>> what changed on my system to now cause this behavior. **ANY** help you can >>> give to assist me would be most appreciated since I use it for all my >>> development efforts. >> >>This is very likely to be some sort of problem with the clipboard integration >>code. >> >>You might find that using the '-noclipboard' option works around the problem >>(at the cost of not being able to cut/paste between Windows and X apps). >> >>An xserver log with '-logverbose 3' might shed a bit more light on what's >>going on. >> >>-- >>Jon TURNEY >>Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/
