Re: Cygwin/X crashes when using -clipboard; Win95; switched fromGnome to KDE on linux

[Jay Smith <jay at JaySmith dot com>]

Wilks, Dan said the following on 06/28/2004 05:31 PM:
> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
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> > Jay Smith wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi Alexander,
> > >
> > > Yes, I did get crashing from "simple cases" (i.e. plain text in a basic
>
> KDE
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> > > xterm [konsole]).  In a couple cases the crash was within a few seconds
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> and
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> > > in other cases I was able to do two or three copy/paste operations
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> before
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> > > it crashed.
> >
> > konsole is different from xterm. konsole most likely uses qt functions for
> > clipboard handling. But i doubt this makes any difference.
> >
> >
> > > I am afraid that I haven't a clue how to track this down myself.
> > >
> > > Does this error message give you any ideas?
> > >    winClipboardErrorHandler - ERROR:
> > >        BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
> >
> > No. Unfortunatly not. This error could result from any x11 call in the
> > clipboard thread. I could add more output which at least prints the
> > function called but this will only give minor hints. To find the code
> > where it fails one would have to debug XWin.
> >
> >
> > > Does the rest of the log output (in my original post) look correct? Are
> > > there any clues there?
> > >
> > > If this can't be solved, then it may mean that Windows 95 may be no
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> longer
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> > > supported for Cygwin/X.
>
> I haven't been watching this entire thread but there is additional logging
> code in the sources that I don't think have made it into an official 
> release.  Also, I did fix a few bugs that could cause a crash when text
> was copied from X.  Jay, have you tried building your own XWin32 from
> the CVS sources?  If you have, then you could try using -logverbose 3
> to get additional clipboard messages.
>
> Dan

Hi Dan,

No, I have not tried building...  I don't have the knowledge/skill without 
very detailed instructions.  I am willing to try anything to help fix 
things, but I am ignorant of how to do this stuff.

Jay