Cygwin/X copy/paste woes Yesterday I downloaded and installed Cywin:
Dell XPS M1710 Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 mike-lap 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin X is started with cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/startwin.bat copy/paste between local and remote xterm windows doesn't work copy/paste from remote xterm windows to local Windows apps (via clipboard) causes the By "local xterm windows" I mean xterms started on the local (on my laptop) cygwin system using the local display. By "remote xterm windows" I mean xterms started by ssh'ing into a remote system (AIX and Linux) with "ForwardX11 yes" in /etc/ssh_config, and then starting an xterm session on that remote system. The remote xterm uses the local display. Problems: WORKS: select/paste between two local xterm windows select from xterm local xterm and paste into local Windows app select/copy from local windows app and paste into local xterm select/paste within a single remote xterm DOESN'T WORK: select/paste (in either direction) betwen a local and remote xterm (nothing happens) select from remote xterm and paste into local windows app. This clobbers the remote xterm!!!! What happens: I highlight text in the remote xterm, click in the windows app, right click, click "Paste". When I click "Paste" the remote xterm disappears, both from my display and from the windows task bar! I've been successfully using the functionality I describe and for a long time and the problems only began with new hardware & software. On my old laptop (Thinkpad A31p) and an older version of Cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Dalea 1.5.8(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-16 00:19 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin) all of the "DOESN'T WORK" stuff above worked fine. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thanks. -Mike -- 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/