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xwinclip consistently unable to open clipboard
- From: Ed Avis <ed at membled dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: 02 Mar 2004 08:29:13 +0000
- Subject: xwinclip consistently unable to open clipboard
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Because of experiencing hangs when using the built-in clipboard
support (see other threads), I have switched to running xwinclip.exe
separately. It normally works but recently, with the X server having
been running for a while, xwinclip died with 'unable to open
clipboard'. The full output was
UnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
Unicode clipboard I/O
SelectionNotify - Reasserted ownership of ATOM: PRIMARY
[above line repeated many times]
OpenClipboard () failed: 00000000
Previously, I've had xwinclip crash but been able to restart it. But
now when I try to restart xwinclip it dies immediately:
UnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
Unicode clipboard I/O
OpenClipboard () failed: 00000000
Hmm, I was going to say, this happens every time I run it. But during
the course of writing this message I pasted some text from the command
prompt window into PuTTY, and that seems to have cured the problem -
xwinclip is now chugging away happily.
So I just mention this in case it is interesting - sorry that I can't
reproduce the problem every time. I am running XFree86-xserv 4.3.0-44
and XFree86-xwinclip 4.3.0-2.
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Ed Avis <ed@membled.com>