RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-25 Thread Williams, Chris (Marlboro)
; mike_ay...@tvworks.com Subject: Re: Reproducing the cygwin X problems Dan Tsafrir wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Mike Ayers wrote: I can neither confirm nor deny this, as I don't have ClipBook available. Did you try to run 'clipbrd' through start-run ? I just kill

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-25 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Dan Tsafrir [mailto:dan.tsaf...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:03 PM However, in an attempt to test your hypothesis, I've set the affinity of XWin.exe, emacs, and the vncviewer to only use CPU0 (through the task manager). I don't think this is a valid test.

Re: Reproducing the cygwin X problems; MinTTY, too

2009-02-25 Thread Jon TURNEY
Lee D.Rothstein wrote: FWIW, I'm having a similar proble with MinTTY. If I select text in a MinTTY window, then copy text withing a GUI app, like TextPad (http://textpad.com), clipboard stops working for all apps. If I ten return to the original, MinTTY window, and reselect text, paste it,

Re: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-25 Thread Jon TURNEY
Mike Ayers wrote: From: Dan Tsafrir Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:03 PM However, in an attempt to test your hypothesis, I've set the affinity of XWin.exe, emacs, and the vncviewer to only use CPU0 (through the task manager). I don't think this is a valid test. What is wanted

Re: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
Dan Tsafrir wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Mike Ayers wrote: I can neither confirm nor deny this, as I don't have ClipBook available. Did you try to run 'clipbrd' through start-run ? I just kill Xwin.exe forcibly in task manager - it takes all X apps with it.

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-24 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:14 AM Thanks very much for this information on the clipboard problems. I've been able to reproduce something similar to the problems you describe, so I will spend some time trying to fix it.

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-24 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Dan Tsafrir Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 6:30 PM Pardon my ignorance, but until now I wasn't aware there is such a thing as office clipboard. However, according to this

Re: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-24 Thread Dan Tsafrir
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Jon TURNEY It seems likely that this clipboard contention between multiple applications might behave differently on machines with multi-core processors (which I don't have the capability to test on), so can you indicate if you are using single-core or

Re: Reproducing the cygwin X problems; MinTTY, too

2009-02-24 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
Dan Tsafrir wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Jon TURNEY It seems likely that this clipboard contention between multiple applications might behave differently on machines with multi-core processors (which I don't have the capability to test on), so can you indicate if you are using

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-23 Thread Phil Betts
Dan Tsafrir wrote: I confirm this exact behavior. This is exactly the problem I'm experiencing in terms of copy-paste on my XP machine. Specifically, if the vncviewer (TightVNC) is open, and I select a text in a cygwin xterm or emacs, then copy-paste / cut-and-paste completely stops

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-20 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Phil Betts Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:25 AM I do not usually set it. I only did so in the sample to satisfy FAQ 6.1. ...but set it out of order. I didn't notice that because the

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-20 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Dan Tsafrir Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:36 AM Initially, the only way I was aware of to get the copy-paste functionality back was to reboot the machine. But recently I've noticed another way. I

Re: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Tsafrir
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Mike Ayers mike_ay...@tvworks.com wrote: I can neither confirm nor deny this, as I don't have ClipBook available. Did you try to run 'clipbrd' through start-run ? I just kill Xwin.exe forcibly in task manager - it takes all X apps with it.

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-20 Thread Williams, Chris (Marlboro)
the RealVNC viewer and X apps all the time. -Chris -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Mike Ayers Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:50 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Reproducing the cygwin X problems Lately

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-20 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Williams, Chris (Marlboro) Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:40 AM I use the vnc viewer from RealVNC and the X.org server from cygwin I and I don't have any copy and paste problems. My problems with

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-20 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Williams, Chris (Marlboro) Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:19 PM There is also a warning about not usign xwinclip with the -clipboard switch I am not explicitly running xwinclip - is there

Re: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Tsafrir
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Williams, Chris (Marlboro) christopherb.willi...@amd.com wrote: I use the file C:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.bat Me too, so I would guess that the difference in the copy-paste behavior we observe, is unrelated. --Dan -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-20 Thread Williams, Chris (Marlboro)
Are you running the office clipboard from Office 2003? -Chris -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Dan Tsafrir Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 3:55 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Reproducing the cygwin X

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-20 Thread Williams, Chris (Marlboro)
- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Mike Ayers Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 3:24 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-19 Thread Phil Betts
Mike Ayers wrote: Today I noticed a new problem, which may or may not be related: [SNIP] mike-ayers-lap ssh -Y -l mayers mikeayers-linux-2 Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Last login: Thu Feb 19 11:54:55 2009 from 192.168.2.87

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X problems

2009-02-19 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Phil Betts Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 1:34 PM It might have worked, but it was wrong. Do not set the DISPLAY environment variable. It is set by ssh -Y to something similar to localhost:10.0 -