From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 116843 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2015 18:57:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 116832 invoked by uid 89); 17 Nov 2015 18:57:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS,URI_HEX autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-lf0-f54.google.com Received: from mail-lf0-f54.google.com (HELO mail-lf0-f54.google.com) (209.85.215.54) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:57:15 +0000 Received: by lfs39 with SMTP id 39so11597976lfs.3 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:57:12 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.25.39.19 with SMTP id n19mr449244lfn.156.1447786632441; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:57:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.25.134.214 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:57:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Fwd: Limited clipboard buffer between X11 apps and Microsoft Windows From: Kevin Connor Arpe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-11/txt/msg00242.txt.bz2 Hello, Firstly, big shout out to all the incredible volunteers on this project. My life is infinitely more technically manageable on Microsoft Windows thanks to Cygwin. I get that Linux feeling everyday. My issue: Copying text between X11 apps and Microsoft Windows has limited clipboard buffer. My office co-worker and I were able to replicate the same issue on our machines. To replicate: 1) Run Cygwin X Server locally. 2) Run gedit remotely (using company Linux hosts) and redirect display to our local Cygwin X Server. 3) Copy some text in gedit, paste in Windows app, e.g. Notepad. We are able to find a limit (approximately 1000+ lines of text). To be very clear: We can copy small amounts to text, but not large amounts of text. My co-worker found this historical Cygwin mailing list item. It looks very similar: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/emacs-x11-new-clipboard-size-limitation-td104696.html When the copy/paste fails, I see the following in /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log: [298268.591] winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - X*TextPropertyToTextList returned: XConverterNotFound Finally, I regularly update my Cygwin; AFAIK: my release is quite recent. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW W01BBSAV 2.3.0(0.291/5/3) 2015-11-09 10:22 i686 Cygwin Please let me know what I can do to provide further information & details, e.g., STC -- Simple Test Case as normally requested by Corinna. Thanks, Arpe -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple