From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3287 invoked by alias); 8 Jun 2019 13:12:35 -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 3275 invoked by uid 89); 8 Jun 2019 13:12:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Brian, brian, H*R:D*ca, opportunity X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 13:12:32 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id Zb92hqKTCldkPZb93hnGEw; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 07:12:29 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Dragging from explorer to cygwin terminal is not putting the path into the terminal To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <48981a768f895c196f11fa4a107cfd4d@smtp-cloud7.xs4all.net> <7d17529190f3be22a6081205b4cde342@smtp-cloud9.xs4all.net> <5a1925cb-32c5-ae59-eb6c-abf09a45f896@towo.net> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 13:12:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5a1925cb-32c5-ae59-eb6c-abf09a45f896@towo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-06/txt/msg00103.txt.bz2 On 2019-06-08 01:10, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 08.06.2019 um 02:52 schrieb Academy OfFetishes: >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 5:41 PM Doug Henderson wrote: >>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 11:33, Academy OfFetishes wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 12:41 AM Thomas Wolff 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). >>> 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. >> 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". The OP has a reproducible test case: file drag to cmd always works, file drag to mintty never works: fails on both 3.0.0 and 3.0.7; the rest of us have no problems: diagnosis opportunity! -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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