Re: Cygwin clipboard flaky on Windows 7

[Chris Stenton <chris at stenton dot me dot uk>]

On 21/10/2014 13:15, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 17/10/2014 12:28, Chris Stenton wrote:
> > When X is first started and with one "windows notepad" open I can
> > bi-directionally  cut and paste between the MS and X windows world.
> > However, it seems  that if I have multiple MS windows open then I can't
> > cut from MS windows and paste into the X world. It still works for X
> > world to MS World.
>
> Thanks for reporting your problem.
>
> I spent a little bit of time using X and 2 "windows notepad" windows 
> trying to reproduce the problem, but I wasn't able to do so.
>
> Do you have any other programs running when the problem occurs 
> (particularly 'clipboard manager' programs)?
>
> Can you attach a /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log after you have seen the 
> problem?

Hi,

I don't think I have any other clipboard manager progs running . But a 
lot of progs are started at login.

Here is the output from  XWin.1.log you can see the GetClipboardData is 
failing.


Chris

Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 1.16.1.0
OS: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 mars 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:03 i686
OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601] (Win32)
Package: version 1.16.1-2 built 2014-10-08

XWin was started with the following command line:

/usr/bin/XWin :1 -clipboard -nodecoration -notrayicon -dpi 100
 -query xxxxxxxxx  -from xxxxxxxxxxxx -once

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeScreenDefaults - primary monitor w 1280 h 1024
winInitializeScreenDefaults - native DPI x 96 y 96
[361495.266] (II) xorg.conf is not supported
[361495.266] (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for 
more
formation
[361495.266] LoadPreferences: /home/jacs/.XWinrc not found
[361495.266] LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc
[361495.266] LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file...
[361495.266] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing 
Shado
DNL
[361495.282] winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 
00000015
[361495.282] winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
[361495.282] winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per 
pixel
[361495.329] winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
[361495.329] MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
[361495.329] XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization 
disabled due
 lack of shared memory support in the kernel
[361495.344] (EE) AIGLX: No native OpenGL in modes with a root window
[361495.376] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
[361495.376] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast
[361495.376] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
[361495.578] winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 640 492
[361495.578] (--) 3 mouse buttons found
[361495.578] (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
[361495.578] (--) Windows keyboard layout: "00000809" (00000809) "United 
Kingd
", type 4
[361495.578] (--) Found matching XKB configuration "English (United 
Kingdom)"
[361495.578] (--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "none" Options 
= "no
"
[361495.578] Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = 
"none" Opt
ns = "none"
[361495.688] winClipboardThreadProc - DISPLAY=:1.0
[361495.688] winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
[361495.688] winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and 
successfully open
 the display.
[361495.719] winClipboardIOErrorHandler!
[361495.719] winClipboardProc - setjmp returned for IO Error Handler.
[361496.733] winClipboardProc - trying to restart clipboard thread
[361496.733] winClipboardThreadProc - DISPLAY=:1.0
[361496.733] winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and 
successfully open
 the display.
[361531.973] winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionRequest - 
GetClipboardData ()
ailed: 00000000
[361531.973] winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionRequest - 
GetClipboardData ()
ailed: 00000000
[361531.973] winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionRequest - 
GetClipboardData ()
ailed: 00000000
XWin.1.log (END)

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