I have been experiencing this issue frequently ever since I "up"graded to the new X server and xterm last month. I am using xterm. I haven't tried rxvt. I have MS Office XP on WinXP SP2. Disabling the Office Clipboard as suggested doesn't work for me. Once I get in this state copy/paste functionality is broken for all apps. To get the Windows clipboard working I have to kill the X server using Task Manager as telling it to exit using the right-click menu on the X icon in notification area doesn't work. It looks like the X server hangs on shutdown.
I have found that going back to xterm 229 works slightly better but still has the issue (and that's kind of a pain as I have install some obsolete libraries to get it working). This used to work without issue with the old 6.8.x X servers. I have to have MS Outlook running at all times as that is my work email client. Devin -- 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/