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Re: Status of "lost cut and paste" issue?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:18:33 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Status of "lost cut and paste" issue?
- References: <42000B21.4010101@auzsoft.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Auz wrote:
> Hi, I seem to be suffering this issue:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com/msg13265.html /
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-12/msg00161.html
>
> I'm running XP on one side, Fedora Core 3 on the other. I'm launching
> cygwin/x (Release: 6.8.1.0-9) with
>
> winClipboardIOErrorHandler!
>
> winClipboardProc - setjmp returned for IO Error Handler.
>
> Is there any news on a fix, or a work-around?
No. gdm has an unusal startup sequence which interferes with the clipboard integration.
As alternative you might use wdm, kdm or xdm which are reported to work fine.
bye
ago
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