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Re: Really still clipboard deadlock with 4.3.0-50


Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> writes:

>Okay, I have another idea about how to fix this, or at least how to
>work around it.  The following information helps:
>
> > winProcSetSelectionOwner - OpenClipboard () failed: 00000000
> > winProcSetSelectionOwner - OpenClipboard () failed: 00000000
> > winProcSetSelectionOwner - OpenClipboard () failed: 00000000
>
>It seems that whatever X11 application that we are requesting text
>from is not fulfilling that request,

The only X11 application I run is xemacs-21.4.8, shipped with Red Hat
Linux 8.0.  However I just tried pasting some text from gedit into
Windows and that hanged too.

>I'll try to come up with a way to detect when this is happening and
>just write some bogus text to the clipboard to fulfill our
>obligation.

Great, that will make XWin -clipboard a lot safer to use... even if it
doesn't work yet ;-).

-- 
Ed Avis <ed@membled.com>


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