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Re: test case for clipboard hang?


another test case: copy anything from nedit into any windows app... hangs
for 3 secs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: test case for clipboard hang?


> Lev,
>
> Lev Bishop wrote:
>
> > However, I've repeated the following procedure 3 times and it worked the
> > same each time -- probably not a minimal test case but it shows the
> > problem. I have to follow the steps precisely in order, though:
> >
> > 1) Reboot
> > 2) start a fresh xwin, xterm, notepad, and put some text in the xterm
and
> > notepad
> > 3) select, ^C copy from notepad, middle-click in xterm. it pastes
> > successfully
> > 4) select in xterm, leave the text reverse-videoed
> > 5) ^V paste into notepad (successfully)
> > 6) drop the selection in xterm (by left clicking somewhere)
> > 7) ^V paste into notepad (successfully, even though the selection is
> > dropped)
> > 8) select a different piece of text in xterm.
> > 9) drop the selection in xterm
> > 10) ^V paste into notepad: it hangs for a few seconds and doesn't paste.
> > (The paste menu option is NOT greyed out at this point).
>
> Yes, that is reproducible for me now.  I think I have some ideas as to
> what might be causing the problem.
>
> Harold
>


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