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Re: xwinclip: selection either gets lost in X or doesn't end up in NTclipboard
- From: uribarri_u at tsm dot es
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:45:30 +0200
- Subject: Re: xwinclip: selection either gets lost in X or doesn't end up in NTclipboard
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Sensitivity:
> 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.).
This is a X design problem. XWinclip must own the selection to be able to
detect the selection changes. There is an experimental X server which
detects selection changes without owning the selection. Search the
maillist.