Cut-Copy/Paste dies after several hours (-clipboard)

[Jay Smith]

Hi again,

1) Is this a known problem?  Any suggestions?

    I thought I was going nuts, but it has happened enough times that I am 
sure it is really happening.  My usual workday is about 14 hours.  After 
around 9-11 hours, the "-clipboard" cut-copy/paste between Windows and 
Linux stops functioning.  It seems that it no longer puts the highlighted 
content into to the/a paste buffer.

    I have not been able to determine if this is simply "happening by 
itself" of if some event is occuring.  However, if I accidenally leave my X 
sessions up overnight, the cut-copy/paste rarely still works in the morning 
even though it may have worked when I left the night before.

    My Windows machine is Windows 95b.

    The Linux server on which the X applications are running is Red Hat 8, 
up2date with most recent updates.

    I have not been able to find instructions on Cygwin.com how to get a 
list of installed Cygwin/XFree version numbers.  (Advice?)  However, I 
installed everything freshly on 18 October 2003 if that helps.

    I am using the -clipboard option.  I am not sure why I am not using 
xwinclip -- there was something that did not work at some point.

2) In case anybody is inspired to work on it, I still have the problem that 
if I don't get logged in to the XDM "instantly", the cut-copy/paste does 
not function.  I have mentioned this earlier and Harold said that he is 
otherwise occupied.  I don't have the technical ability to do anything 
about it.

    When I say instantly, I mean that I have to absolutely type my name and 
password as fast as I possibly can -- and I am a very fast typist -- and 
about half the time, that is fast enough.  If I am too slow, the 
cut-copy/paste does not work.

    Also, if the startup time of Xwin is too slow (i.e. first time run 
after PC is rebooted), then I rarely have a chance of cut-copy/paste 
working.  Because of Win95 graphics resource issues, I have to reboot my 
machine every morning -- that means I have to log in to the XDM at least 
twice to get cut-copy/paste working.

    There is a particular "click" the hard disk makes (of the many that 
occur as programs are starting up) when this particular program is 
starting.  I know 100% of the time that if the "click" happens before the 
login process is far enough along that the cut-copy-paste will not work.

    By the way, this also means if the Linux server is under heavy load and 
responding slowly at that moment that I am out of luck and will have to try 
again until things are fast enough getting logged in and up before 
cut-copy/paste will work.

Jay

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