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Re: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior
- From: "Cary Jamison" <Cary dot Jamison at powerquest dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:24:13 -0600
- Subject: Re: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
"Andrew Braverman" <abraverman at itms dot com> wrote in message
news:<000c01c2fa25$d8ae9810$1e54cea7 at andrew>...
> The one other thing that I notice that I think is related to this is
> that in some applications (the one I see it in is ddd when compiled
> with lesstif), the selection does not even hold long enough to select
> it. If I click and drag (while still holding down the mouse button)
> the selection disappears. If I try to paste, my buffer has been
> deleted. I also have a related problem when I want to get a menu
> relating to an area that is larger than the default area. Normally, I
> would select the larger area and click (or right click) on it to get
> the appropriate menu. I can never do that. Does anyone have any
> ideas?
I find that the times I actually need to cut/paste between Windows and X
to be very few. I'm mostly doing it within windows or within X but not
between them. Because of this I only start xwinclip when I need it. I
have a shortcut on my desktop so I can quickly start it when I want and
then close it when I'm done. That way I don't get bothered by the weird
selection problems in X.
It's a bit of a pain, but if it bothered me too much, I suppose I would
dig in and fix X to do it right. I'm sure Harold keeps hoping someone
will dig in and do it so this issue will go away!
Cary