From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 54681 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2019 22:46:19 -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 54561 invoked by uid 89); 11 Sep 2019 22:46:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_INFOUSMEBIZ,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=wwwad1cus, UD:ad1c.us, UD:www.ad1c.us, www.ad1c.us X-HELO: outgoing-alum.mit.edu Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (HELO outgoing-alum.mit.edu) (18.7.68.33) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:46:00 +0000 Received: from mail-ot1-f53.google.com (mail-ot1-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as jjreisert@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.14.7/8.12.4) with ESMTP id x8BMjvWn017952 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:45:58 -0400 Received: by mail-ot1-f53.google.com with SMTP id 21so24165733otj.11 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:45:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5D633C75.5020204@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: From: Jim Reisert AD1C Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: retry: Problem transfering X11 cut/copy buffer to windows and back To: Jon Turney Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-09/txt/msg00130.txt.bz2 On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 8:52 AM Jon Turney wrote: > > 1. Is there any information I can provide to help debug this problem? > > A reliable way of reproducing the problem would be ideal :) I wish! > Failing that, the /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log might be informative. > > > 2. Is there a way to reset the X server's (or maybe Windows') > > copy/paste buffer without having to close all my X windows and restart > > the server? > > Not really. > > You can start the X server with the '-noclipboard' option, and then run > 'xwinclip' for clipboard integration (which since it is a separate > process, rather than a thread in the X server, can be killed and restarted). > > Ideally you'd then attach gdb to xwinclip if/when it gets stuck to debug > why that's happening. :) The next time I'm doing an activity which is likely to hit this, I'll see what I can get. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us -- 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