Re: Dragging from explorer to cygwin terminal is not putting the path into the terminal

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 08.06.2019 um 02:52 schrieb Academy OfFetishes:
> That's interesting.  Well my sync settings already seems to be off, but
> when I was having issues, it was working just like you described.
>
> I'm not sure if I'm supposed to create a new Mintty issue or wait for
> Thomas to reply.
1. Please note that this list has a no-top-posting policy. (Respond 
below the text you're referring to.)
2. Latest comments are suggesting this may not be a mintty issue.
3. I can only reply if there is a clear question or issue presented. 
Even though I noticed the issue once myself, there is still no 
"reproducible test case".

>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 5:41 PM Doug Henderson <djndnbvg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 11:33, Academy OfFetishes wrote:
>>> I have the same problem with 3.0.0.
>>>
>>> Sorry for slowly dripping out information (I promise that's not my
>> intent),
>>> but I will say, as soon as I created this user account on windows, I had
>>> copy and paste issues that were outside of cygwin.  I recall copying text
>>> from firefox and not being able to paste it into windows explorer and
>> vice
>>> versa (these are contrived examples.  I can't remember what the exact
>>> problems were, but they were similar to this).  It seemed very random,
>>> though.  Like some copy/paste worked, and some did not.  After running
>> sfc
>>> /scannow and restarting twice, the problem seems to have gone away
>>> completely.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if that's
>> to this problem (except that it could point
>>> out a borked windows install).
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 12:41 AM Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net> wrote:
>>>
>> I encountered strange clipboard problems as a result of fiddling with
>> the Clipboard Settings in Win10.
>>
>> When I turned on "Sync across devices", after a "Copy to clipboard"
>> operation, sometimes the "Paste from clipboard" operation pasted
>> nothing or the previous clipboard content. A few moments later,
>> another "Paste" would paste the content of the most recent "Copy". It
>> seems as though the content of the clipboard was not updated after a
>> Copy operation until a Sync to cloud was performed, with the timing
>> being dependant on WiFi, internet and cloud speeds and latency.
>>
>> I did not observe any difference in "Drag and Drop" behaviour with
>> this setting, but I almost exclusively use keyboard Copy and Paste
>> instead of mouse Drop and Drag.
>>
>>
>> Doug
>>
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