We were having a similar problem with Cygwin/xfree on Windows 95 with Linux
running in Xwindows supplied via xfree/cygwin.
The problem had several aspects.
- When we up graded Cygwin at one point (can't remember which) things
stopped working so we fell back.
- When we up graded our Red Hat 8
I run XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100 . I can copy and paste from X
to Windows clients, but not from Windows to X clients. Windows to Windows
and X to X copies also work fine.
This is definitely not a problem of forgetting to press Ctrl-C.
I do have some console messages that
just for grins, what happens with
start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100
?
Andrew Schulman wrote:
I run XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100 . I can copy and paste from X
to Windows clients, but not from Windows to X clients. Windows to Windows
and X to X copies also work fine.
just for grins, what happens with
start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100
?
Same. BTW, I assume that start is the CMD.EXE command? I ran the
above from CMD.EXE, and got the same result as before.
I have this problem intermittently.
It seems to only happen when I forget to hit Ctrl-C on the windows side.
I forget that just highlighting the text isn't good enough after being
spoiled on the X side.
Andrew Schulman wrote:
I run XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100 . I can copy and
I run XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100 . I can copy and paste from X
to Windows clients, but not from Windows to X clients. Windows to Windows
and X to X copies also work fine.
I know I've seen postings about this problem in the past, but I can't find
anything recent about it and I
