From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16565 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2004 15:00:59 -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 16544 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2004 15:00:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys27.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.127) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Jan 2004 15:00:58 -0000 Received: from [207.179.68.222] (helo=msu.edu) by sys27.mail.msu.edu with asmtp (Exim 4.24 #37) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1Aebec-00069W-8d for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 10:00:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3FFD70AB.4080100@msu.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:00:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Clipboard configuration References: <1073569683.6535.31.camel@famine> In-Reply-To: <1073569683.6535.31.camel@famine> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00146.txt.bz2 List-Id: Øyvind, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > A good configuration option is no configuration option :-) > > Is there any reason not to make -clipboard default for XWin once the > current round of changes are out of the door? > > In the past xwinclip crashed intermittantly and it clobbered the clipboard, so -clipboard > not being default made sense. I have already been thinking about it. I'll eventually make -clipboard the default and add a -noclipboard option to disable it. That is what we have typically done for all features that newly reach stabililty. Harold