From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11778 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2004 16:39:17 -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 11765 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2004 16:39:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pengo.systems.pipex.net) (62.241.160.193) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Jan 2004 16:39:15 -0000 Received: from ori.gallowglass.myip.org (81-86-192-198.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.192.198]) by pengo.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B9F884C00132 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:39:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ori [127.0.0.1] by ori.gallowglass.myip.org (192.168.1.120) with SMTP (Classic Hamster Vr. 2.0 Build 2.0.0.1) ; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:38:14 GMT From: Sam Edge To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Clipboard configuration Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:39:00 -0000 Organization: . Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Message-ID: References: <1073569683.6535.31.camel@famine> <3FFD70AB.4080100@msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3FFD70AB.4080100@msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Posting-Agent: Hamster/2.0.0.1 X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00151.txt.bz2 List-Id: Harold L Hunt II wrote in <3FFD70AB.4080100@msu.edu> in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Thu, 08 Jan 2004 10:00:59 -0500: > =D8yvind Harboe wrote: > > A good configuration option is no configuration option :-) > > Is there any reason not to make -clipboard default for XWin once the=20 > > current round of changes are out of the door? > > In the past xwinclip crashed intermittantly and it clobbered the clipbo= ard, so -clipboard=20 > > not being default made sense. >=20 > I have already been thinking about it. > I'll eventually make -clipboard the default and add a -noclipboard=20 > option to disable it. > That is what we have typically done for all features that newly reach=20 > stabililty. It could be argued that if the -query or -broadcast option is also being used the default should remain -noclipboard. Most (remote) display managers turn on X authentication and prevent the internal clipboard client from connecting to its own Cygwin/X server. This results in the client wasting its time doing it's start-up retries. This isn't a huge waste - more a niggle. If the inter-clipboard functionality is eventually re-coded into the server end instead of being an X-client it will avoid the authentication problem and the default can be changed to 'enabled' in all cases. Discuss? --=20 Sam Edge