>On 13/02/2012 23:05, Bennett, Tony wrote: >>> On 03/02/2012 22:55, Bennett, Tony wrote: >>>> Often when "cutting" from Xwin and attempting to "Paste" to a WindowsXP >>>> application, >>>> the "most recent" "cut" is not pasted... but instead a "previous" Xwin >>>> "cut". >>>> >>>> In other words, this scenario: >>>> >>>> LOCATION ACT Comment >>>> Xwin Cut "abc" >>>> WinXP Paste correctly pastes "abc" >>>> Xwin Cut "def" >>>> WinXP Paste Incorrectly pastes "abc" >>>> >>>> When the above problem occurs, no matter how many times a "cut" from Xwin, >>>> Whenever I paste on WinXP it pastes "abc". >>>> >>>> I can "correct" the problem by "cutting" from WinXP and pasting into >>>> Xwin... >>>> ...after doing this the next Xwin "cut" will "correctly" paste on WinXP. >>> >>> Yes, this is a rather long-standing problem (see the bug report at [1] for >>> some of the technical details), which is unfortunately not easy to fix in a >>> way that works well for all cases. >>> >>> Fortunately, there is a simple workaround for the moment: If you install and >>> run xclipboard, that will cause XWin to notice every change of the clipboard >>> contents. >> >> Thanks for the reply, Jon. >> >> Exactly "how" do I use xclipboard...??? >> >> Here's how I'm starting Xwin right now in a >> Windows Script called startx.bat: >> >> @echo off >> C: >> >> chdir C:\cygwin\bin >> >> bash -c "PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin;XWin -clipboard -logverbose 3 -ac >> -query cdcxvd0559.con-way.com -fp >> \"tcp/cdcxvd0559.con-way.com:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/\" >> &" >> >> >> You'll notice I use XDMCP to establish a CDE session on cdcxvd0559... >> >> I've tried starting xclipboard in the same script, after starting Xwin >> (and sometimes even specifying -noclipboard)... and I always get >> an IO error.... and X-win dies. > >Ah. Applying this workaround is perhaps not so simple when using XDMCP :-( > >You can't just add a 'xclipboard' line after 'XWin &', because the X server >may still be starting up when xclipboard tries to start, which will fail. > >However, this shouldn't lead to the X server itself dying. > >It's possible to put a wait here, but there are a couple of other reasons why >this approach won't work well. > >You might find it easier to start xclipboard on the host you are XDMCPing to, >possibly as part of your login script there.... >
Jon, Given that I'd have to "build" xclipboard for the host that I'm XDMCPing to, and that host is running AIX... Sadly, I may just have to "live" with the problem. Is there any hope that the issue will be corrected in the foreseeable future...??? -tony -- 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/
