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Cut-Copy/Paste dies after several hours (-clipboard)
- From: Jay Smith <jay at JaySmith dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:23:10 -0500
- Subject: Cut-Copy/Paste dies after several hours (-clipboard)
- Organization: Jay Smith and Associates
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi again,
1) Is this a known problem? Any suggestions?
I thought I was going nuts, but it has happened enough times that I am
sure it is really happening. My usual workday is about 14 hours. After
around 9-11 hours, the "-clipboard" cut-copy/paste between Windows and
Linux stops functioning. It seems that it no longer puts the highlighted
content into to the/a paste buffer.
I have not been able to determine if this is simply "happening by
itself" of if some event is occuring. However, if I accidenally leave my X
sessions up overnight, the cut-copy/paste rarely still works in the morning
even though it may have worked when I left the night before.
My Windows machine is Windows 95b.
The Linux server on which the X applications are running is Red Hat 8,
up2date with most recent updates.
I have not been able to find instructions on Cygwin.com how to get a
list of installed Cygwin/XFree version numbers. (Advice?) However, I
installed everything freshly on 18 October 2003 if that helps.
I am using the -clipboard option. I am not sure why I am not using
xwinclip -- there was something that did not work at some point.
2) In case anybody is inspired to work on it, I still have the problem that
if I don't get logged in to the XDM "instantly", the cut-copy/paste does
not function. I have mentioned this earlier and Harold said that he is
otherwise occupied. I don't have the technical ability to do anything
about it.
When I say instantly, I mean that I have to absolutely type my name and
password as fast as I possibly can -- and I am a very fast typist -- and
about half the time, that is fast enough. If I am too slow, the
cut-copy/paste does not work.
Also, if the startup time of Xwin is too slow (i.e. first time run
after PC is rebooted), then I rarely have a chance of cut-copy/paste
working. Because of Win95 graphics resource issues, I have to reboot my
machine every morning -- that means I have to log in to the XDM at least
twice to get cut-copy/paste working.
There is a particular "click" the hard disk makes (of the many that
occur as programs are starting up) when this particular program is
starting. I know 100% of the time that if the "click" happens before the
login process is far enough along that the cut-copy-paste will not work.
By the way, this also means if the Linux server is under heavy load and
responding slowly at that moment that I am out of luck and will have to try
again until things are fast enough getting logged in and up before
cut-copy/paste will work.
Jay
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