RE: FW: RE: Cut and Paste between X and WindowsXP sometimes fails

["Bennett, Tony" <Bennett.Tony@con-way.com>]

>On 13/02/2012 23:05, Bennett, Tony wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Thanks for the reply, Jon.
>> 
>> Exactly "how" do I use xclipboard...???
>> 
>> Here's how I'm starting Xwin right now in a 
>> Windows Script called startx.bat:
>> 
>> 	@echo off
>> 	C:
>> 
>> 	chdir C:\cygwin\bin
>> 
>> 	bash -c "PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin;XWin -clipboard -logverbose 3 -ac -query cdcxvd0559.con-way.com -fp \"tcp/cdcxvd0559.con-way.com:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/\"  &"
>> 
>> 
>> You'll notice I use XDMCP to establish a CDE session on cdcxvd0559...
>> 
>> I've tried starting xclipboard in the same script, after starting Xwin
>> (and sometimes even specifying -noclipboard)... and I always get
>> an IO error.... and X-win dies.
>
>Ah. Applying this workaround is perhaps not so simple when using XDMCP :-(
>
>You can't just add a 'xclipboard' line after 'XWin &', because the X server
>may still be starting up when xclipboard tries to start, which will fail.
>
>However, this shouldn't lead to the X server itself dying.
>
>It's possible to put a wait here, but there are a couple of other reasons why
>this approach won't work well.
>
>You might find it easier to start xclipboard on the host you are XDMCPing to,
>possibly as part of your login script there....
>

Jon,

Given that I'd have to "build" xclipboard for the host that I'm XDMCPing to,
and that host is running AIX... Sadly, I may just have to "live" with the problem.

Is there any hope that the issue will be corrected in the foreseeable future...???

-tony


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