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xwinclip: selection either gets lost in X or doesn't end up in NT clipboard


Hello,

I've been using Cygwin/XFree86 Test Series quite
happily for a few weeks now, current snapshot is
Test91.

However, I've never quite gotten xwinclip (now
included in server) to work properly.

At startup I am able to copy/paste text between
X and Windows, but at this stage my X selection
gets lost (de-selected, whatever) almost immediately;
the text _is_ in the buffer, I can paste it to another
X client via Mouse button 2, but the selected
text is no longer highlighted, making it impossible
to work on it any further (e.g.: I can't delete
selected text in nedit (Motif text editor) using the
backspace key, similar problems in xemacs, kate (KDE3) etc.).

After some period of time (say, an hour or so)
the behaviour changes: the text in X stays selected
but it no longer winds up in the WinNT clipboard.
Might be some application I use that triggers this,
haven't a clue yet.

OS: Windows NT 4.0 SP 6
Graphics hardware: Matrox Dualhead (G450 AGP, Driver 4.70.011)
X startup: start ..\..\usr\X11r6\bin\XWin -noreset -ac -nowinkill -clipboard
-fullscreen %1
  (from KDE3.1.1 script startkde_small.bat)
Minimal KDE startup:
  bin\kdeinit +kicker +kwin

Clients used:
- konsole (KDE3.1.1 for cygwin)
- xterm (remote; AIX & Solaris)
- nedit (remote; AIX & Solaris)
- xemacs (remote; Solaris)
- Sniff+ (remote; AIX & Solaris)



Any ideas anyone?

Cheers,

Mark.

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current XWin.log:

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 2560 h 1024
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
InitOutput - Error reading config file
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001b
InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw
winAdjustVideoModeShadowDD - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per
pixel
winAllocateFBShadowDD - Not changing video mode
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowDD - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp
32
winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitClipboard.
winInitClipboard ()
winFinishScreenInitFB - returning
winScreenInit - returning
InitOutput - Returning.
winClipboardProc - Hello
winClipboardProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
(==) Using preset keyboard for "German (Germany)" (00000407), type "4"
(EE) No primary keyboard configured
(==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard
Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "(null)" Options =
"(null)"
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing
from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing
from list!
winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 1280 512
winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted
winClipboardProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
winClipboardProc - Calling setlocale ()
winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned
winClipboardProc - setlocale () returned
winClipboardProc - XInitThreads () returned.
winClipboardProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the
display.

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