This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-xfree
mailing list for the Cygwin XFree86 project.
Re: Cut and Paste between X and WindowsXP sometimes fails
On 03/02/2012 22:55, Bennett, Tony wrote:
> Often when "cutting" from Xwin and attempting to "Paste" to a WindowsXP application,
> the "most recent" "cut" is not pasted... but instead a "previous" Xwin "cut".
>
> In other words, this scenario:
>
> LOCATION ACT Comment
> Xwin Cut "abc"
> WinXP Paste correctly pastes "abc"
> Xwin Cut "def"
> WinXP Paste Incorrectly pastes "abc"
>
> When the above problem occurs, no matter how many times a "cut" from Xwin,
> Whenever I paste on WinXP it pastes "abc".
>
> I can "correct" the problem by "cutting" from WinXP and pasting into Xwin...
> ...after doing this the next Xwin "cut" will "correctly" paste on WinXP.
Yes, this is a rather long-standing problem (see the bug report at [1] for
some of the technical details), which is unfortunately not easy to fix in a
way that works well for all cases.
Fortunately, there is a simple workaround for the moment: If you install and
run xclipboard, that will cause XWin to notice every change of the clipboard
contents.
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5735
--
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/
FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/