RE: Is there a Windows clipboard manager that doesn't clash with -clipboard parameter?

["Alister Hood" <alister dot hood at synergine dot com>]

Ah, good.
Since that isn't showing in the cygwin installer I guess I need to
install the beta cygwin to get it?

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, 30 July 2009 5:17 a.m.
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: Alister Hood
Subject: Re: Is there a Windows clipboard manager that doesn't clash
with -clipboard parameter?

On 24/07/2009 07:47, Alister Hood wrote:
> I've found that -clipboard clashes with Windows clipboard history
> managers such as Ditto.  Does anybody know of a clipboard manager with
> which it does work?
>
> If I run glipper in a linux panel in Colinux, then I can use that, and
I
> imagine I could compile them for Cygwin instead, but the panel is
> handled as a window (I'm using -multiwindow), and I'd rather use a
> native Windows clipboard manager anyway, so I can only start X when I
> need to.

Since xorg-server 1.6.0, we've reverted an upstream patch [1], which was

causing the built-in clipboard synchronization client to fight with
other 
clipboard monitoring applications.

Looking at the other responses, it seems like this has had the desired
effect :-)

[1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5735

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