From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19105 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2004 21:33:01 -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 19092 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 21:32:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO central.ixn.com) (65.19.132.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2004 21:32:59 -0000 Received: from msu.edu (mae115e42.tmodns.net [66.94.17.174]) (authenticated bits=0) by central.ixn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i02LWbMN005864 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:32:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FF5E36D.7080303@msu.edu> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 21:33:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection? 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> <20040102152042.GA4731@areti.co.uk> <20040102180352.GB5079@areti.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00033.txt.bz2 List-Id: Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > >>Thomas Dickey wrote: >> >> >>>The windows console talks to the windows clipboard. >>>Does the X clipboard talk to the windows clipboard (or will it someday)? >> >>This thread is all about this. There is the internal clipboard manager and >>this is also available as an external program (xwinclip). > > > I understood that, and was hinting that if you chose to make the > explanation simple & to the point - perhaps to someplace online where it's > discussed lucidly - you wouldn't have to exercise the keyboard so much. A detailed write-up does not exist on the web. It would already exist if someone had time to write it. Nobody has had time yet. We always welcome contributions, since we have more than enough to do right now. Harold