selection to clipboard in xterm

2010-09-24 Thread Sven Severus
Hello, a couple of weeks ago I installed cygwin (1.7.5) on my new Win7-PC. On my old XP-PC the xterm-selection was a highly appreciated function to make some text accessible in the windows clipboard by simply highlighting it with the mouse, but with my new PC that does not work any more.

Re: XWin crash after the launch of startkde on a remote Red Hat 5 machine

2010-09-24 Thread Michel Hummel
Hi Jon, You will find attached to this Email a patch (for the git version) which implements for the clipboard thread : - Auto cleanup function - Auto restart function for unexpected exit of the clipboard or Xerror detection - Deletion of XQuery wrapper (not needed anymore) - Deletion of all

Re: selection to clipboard in xterm

2010-09-24 Thread Gery
Hallo Sven Did you use the middle button of the mouse to paste the highligthed text? Sent from my iPod. On Sep 24, 2010, at 2:29, Sven Severus s.seve...@hima.com wrote: Hello, a couple of weeks ago I installed cygwin (1.7.5) on my new Win7-PC. On my old XP-PC the xterm-selection was a

Re: XWin crash after the launch of startkde on a remote Red Hat 5 machine

2010-09-24 Thread Michel Hummel
I found an error on the previous patch, the clipboard thread was restarting on every X clipboard error. I changed this by adding a test on the request_code error to restart the thread only if the request_code equals to 24 which is the error code for a BadWindow. It seems to me that this is better