From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6552 invoked by alias); 28 Sep 2013 18:38:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 6543 invoked by uid 89); 28 Sep 2013 18:38:16 -0000 Received: from smtp6-g21.free.fr (HELO smtp6-g21.free.fr) (212.27.42.6) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 18:38:16 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp6-g21.free.fr Received: from [IPv6:2a01:e35:2436:f870:c1a4:6590:39ba:4516] (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e35:2436:f870:c1a4:6590:39ba:4516]) (Authenticated sender: falk.tannhauser) by smtp6-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A8AB4822A2 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:38:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5247220D.9010402@free.fr> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 18:38:00 -0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Falk_Tannh=E4user?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree Subject: Re: Strange interaction between Cygwin/X and Mozilla Firefox Bookmarks References: <51EBBE8E.3030000@free.fr> <51EE7E1E.2000805@dronecode.org.uk> <51EEF274.2020402@free.fr> <5241DEAF.3070806@dronecode.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <5241DEAF.3070806@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-09/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 Am 24.09.2013 20:49, schrieb Jon TURNEY: > This is indeed a strange interaction. The problem seems to be (i) (for some > reason) Firefox asks for the current clipboard contents when any of the > bookmarks are clicked on, (ii) gnuplot puts an image of the current plot in > the PRIMARY selection, and (iii) a previous fix to clipboard integration code > [1] has the unforeseen negative side-effect that when the monitored selection > cannot be converted to text, the clipboard integration code sits there waiting > for up to a second, which blocks the Windows application which asked for the > clipboard contents (Firefox in this case) > > Thanks for reporting this problem. > > I've added a patch which tries to fix this behaviour by actually checking if > the selection can be converted to a text format before trying, and uploaded a > snapshot at [2]. Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you? > > [1] > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=a9aca218f557c723e637287272819a7c17174e1e > [2] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20130924-git-d5a9aea0e48a088b.exe.bz2 > Thank you very much - this fixes the problem with gnuplot and FF for me. I tested it under Windows 7 (due to a HD crash I have no longer access to a Windows XP system). By the way, similar symptoms as described in my original posting occur also with the 64-bit versions of XWin and gnuplot. Falk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/