From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3004 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2004 18:50:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 2996 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 18:50:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.mail.areti.net) (193.109.192.70) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2004 18:50:24 -0000 Received: from halkidiki.areti.com (root@halkidiki.areti.com [193.109.192.71]) by relay.mail.areti.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Areti-4.0.0R) with ESMTP id i02IoOeZ024278 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:50:24 GMT Received: (from chris@localhost) by halkidiki.areti.com (8.11.7-20030925/8.11.7) id i02IoNX05278 for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:50:23 GMT Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:50:00 -0000 From: Chris Green To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection? Message-ID: <20040102185023.GA5256@areti.co.uk> Reply-To: chris.green@isbd.co.uk Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <20031231221603.GA320@areti.co.uk> <3FF34EE3.9070300@msu.edu> <20040101153702.GB1971@areti.co.uk> <20040102140446.GA4425@areti.co.uk> <20040102144403.GA4596@areti.co.uk> <20040102180025.GA5079@areti.co.uk> <3FF5B846.4050502@msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FF5B846.4050502@msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 List-Id: On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:28:22PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > >It's of little use to be able to allow xwinclip to run on the win2k > >system by executing something on the Linux system. One wants a means > >to do it from the X startup script. > > Sure, one wants to, but there is not a way to do it. Patches are welcome. > So are we now saying that what I want to do is impossible? I thought people were initially saying that although the '-clipboard' parameter to Xwin wouldn't work when using xdmcp the separate xwinclip executable should work OK. However it would now seem that it's actually impossible to execute xwinclip in the situation where one has am xdmcp connection to a remote computer. I'm not complaining (much!), but I am rather confused. :-) -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)