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To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20221019065805.GA17124@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> <20221019125842.GA1210@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> <20221020005205.00000623@online.de> Content-Language: en-GB From: Sam Edge Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20221020005205.00000623@online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:kS/GbYwReNo1C14kWR6xDwXtCoj85hqMv0txpyJOsN4ywgYNvLM wKPtHXuDzheuIJoXGzfFYItIUTlZLB+Wb8UszF+3+6C6JWoVIN6gHvnAE2YtWVlPF0+o2Jt am1YLjJqI8parnW+A84/wzRp04gUhWmuW+fL4KI876scS2uH7CN81Mp+EjtmElGMYksSfsy WDdOShSQAMmrB+dgTVL4Q== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:iPfiK/d5WZk=:eqvkhVzWSwS1XUiXKZC4QF 4HWaKe7wMcHyIiAIKHyYbnUCLq+/1Z8KBl0gQ46J1DS5TLLAK1esmeh44yjjWD1+xhjmDMx2v nfqoWtnDo4ItM2Tjci9YlyVpfOF+tgGBKoYgJ/fwuy3N46rf4AcgsgTkjyOGd3EJ0AkdbNsBf CUIFXGHnfFqoAXik/t+RXYYptSTAH/p0j8tIDMIX/nQ4SYAtNCLgzx7+8jSDvfIpbfRoyRN6w /d+gPaEccJcFlGcrtFadwcsnQyLX+C+WTL7GUtazl7Z4eVAI7u1XsTk3vVyTUwXOsJa5BaRco g1tomaT5xKhvmVkWWcmGbKQeNlISV547WutJE8owMfrdQwL2gOvELpRFJrgo4P4ZKq1fK7yCN 1vda3lNCcWBq00stWz9XdsnYQqqoNlHq2G1Xin9oiehTyPbukuwqJfJneZcwMgWVbPVBXhe0e 5x7hiSF2XQCWFZ9695BaBzRY0cE2XqxzPNZqM5yz3lsMtoPWlapYp4liV5HhnlghIR2GctHsl VJBdDAejRIxWQMPsSIDt7DlKV9echoCDE8suj0pLN4rDvFFhB/Uq/AI5dC6MlfL5Kmy7Luv7i 6HbuysKfH1bASyv++P2HrbgH885KXCgM9rN6IcZpAQjdOZdOqbcsbi8lcA2QM5WClB5rKxAtf nEkV7dQRyNUDkoAJNOsKwVbxfkysIWfTpOh1Rp+y2mqJwX3NY/ffE03mrVbUz8IrsxZH9oyrN TXXJb3MHyUhT8XZvJ7fYIjmN5Fdli7is2sQY1xaWYk1ac4F9b9vPI733B95JAcAfLK9dAjvdh K1RoODxAUWoSiR0wOKDSUojl1y8YVrJZX1DJELPu/BPxTOCUURKBZNJoblxgzTtiEO7L342t4 AwFt86TekkKYjFVQt2TN6TGuH27oCBYYdTrJz3QBqrvyCiimpuMdJD+mOJ8SC7MEnoW6H2FNX OzQbFy/whN3a0iXjnDzGaGbg3rCN6yD4vA0jce8ZsB6b1M35Z+xuVrF5NsEaKatURlGv9oznF xaGEQhAq5qJrPMjZwOdklIyuCvyfBnJLuxJvpdEBMFfpuqBnxDfixo8SVXb3UEgi+umURQVrV g4wgLwc9KvuYKhE8UK5Q4dSn3ndnRsm9eWMf6sY+fmY4wclqGB6cnrlCvGDeop+eiYyhREoYY 9VPnEjiZh3VLwT+O5FR/AFjSNqxYP6mxFzou++z8uu97dYPcUSJTMsJ9Qh7xuWqk6e4IsMNxv RZrw0mOn0xOIfzgT4GLU0BjvPin1LQGBBuTIROC2lh0H+ENJ8A9LWCocw2ElRu+dHSh7IzzjK R1+Tp4pPM9xU8HPKuVNijmZOOze5YSroR/Boyy3omHC8h5mJRQSBNzM5DGczm0TqG3QscTEK5 +idEzudScJt5iXEM1L8T5KxbwRZ93r4diXwtF+6vPVO66wWBlKs/3OPgAFWgIeW1zBCmI0D3i 20uvUra+9TeGnFTS3PVc6w87q1y4KQ1h/7bb+VjVQa7UehQlVEg93/UGHIJDBcBDGxJ5utFux xpI3ZyVuD2meWs0ODloOuFpZkRVdB+YPLIMTHjvBiqU1b X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,NICE_REPLY_A,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 19/10/2022 23:52, Oliver Schoede wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:58:42 +0200 > Ulli Horlacher wrote: >> https://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/jFZ6T7wI/X-20221019141237.png >> >> I have selected [copy] in the file browser, but /dev/clipboard is >> empty. Also getclip gives me no output. >> > > It looks to me like you copied the file, not the file name? > To clarify the above, Windows has a non-text clipboard data type when 'copying' a file in the File Explorer which encodes additional information other than its path. This is to allow the equivalent 'paste' function in Explorer and other file-accepting GUI applications to work more intelligently. Unfortunately, Cygwin's /dev/clipboard and get/putclip only process text formats. I imagine your X file manager is simply copying a textual representation of the file path to the clipboard when you choose 'copy' which of course can be extracted by scripts etc. It appears that Windows Explorer doesn't also place a textual representation onto the clipboard (the Windows clipboard allows multiple representations to exist simultaneously) which is what would be required for Cygwin to use it at present. =2D- Sam Edge