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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: Bennett.Tony@con-way.com
Subject: Re: Cut and Paste between X and WindowsXP sometimes fails
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3980F2.5030408@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9E085D377965634187A85638358AE611019DB48492@DCXPRCL017.cnf.prod.cnf.com>

On 03/02/2012 22:55, Bennett, Tony wrote:
> Often when "cutting" from Xwin and attempting to "Paste" to a WindowsXP application,
> the "most recent" "cut" is not pasted... but instead a "previous" Xwin "cut".
> 
> In other words, this scenario:
> 
>     LOCATION    ACT            Comment
>     Xwin        Cut "abc"
>     WinXP       Paste		 correctly pastes "abc"
>     Xwin	    Cut "def"
>     WinXP       Paste		 Incorrectly pastes "abc"
> 
> When the above problem occurs, no matter how many times a "cut" from Xwin,
> Whenever I paste on WinXP it pastes "abc".
> 
> I can "correct" the problem by "cutting" from WinXP and pasting into Xwin...
> ...after doing this the next Xwin "cut" will "correctly" paste on WinXP.

Yes, this is a rather long-standing problem (see the bug report at [1] for
some of the technical details), which is unfortunately not easy to fix in a
way that works well for all cases.

Fortunately, there is a simple workaround for the moment: If you install and
run xclipboard, that will cause XWin to notice every change of the clipboard
contents.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5735

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-02-13 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-31  8:43 xwin.exe 1.11.4-1 segmentation fault on startup (-wgl -multiwindow) Christian Tuma
2012-01-31 14:45 ` Jon TURNEY
2012-02-01 16:26   ` Christian Tuma
2012-02-03 16:15     ` Jon TURNEY
2012-02-03 22:55       ` Cut and Paste between X and WindowsXP sometimes fails Bennett, Tony
2012-02-13 21:30         ` Jon TURNEY [this message]

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