From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12518 invoked by alias); 10 Mar 2004 09:48:08 -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 12405 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2004 09:48:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Mar 2004 09:48:05 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B10Jo-0000GW-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:48:04 +0100 Received: from budvar.future-i.net ([212.100.224.95]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:48:04 +0100 Received: from ed by budvar.future-i.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:48:04 +0100 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com From: Ed Avis Subject: Re: Really still clipboard deadlock with 4.3.0-50 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:48:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <4044A5D7.3010008@msu.edu> <404558DC.6050002@msu.edu> <404CC637.50400@msu.edu> <404E9192.1080409@msu.edu> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: budvar.future-i.net X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "Bryce Canyon" X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00258.txt.bz2 List-Id: Harold L Hunt II writes: >Okay, I have another idea about how to fix this, or at least how to >work around it. The following information helps: > > > winProcSetSelectionOwner - OpenClipboard () failed: 00000000 > > winProcSetSelectionOwner - OpenClipboard () failed: 00000000 > > winProcSetSelectionOwner - OpenClipboard () failed: 00000000 > >It seems that whatever X11 application that we are requesting text >from is not fulfilling that request, The only X11 application I run is xemacs-21.4.8, shipped with Red Hat Linux 8.0. However I just tried pasting some text from gedit into Windows and that hanged too. >I'll try to come up with a way to detect when this is happening and >just write some bogus text to the clipboard to fulfill our >obligation. Great, that will make XWin -clipboard a lot safer to use... even if it doesn't work yet ;-). -- Ed Avis