xwinclip installation problems (Re: Cut-Copy/Paste dies after several hours (-clipboard))

[Jay Smith]

Harold,

Maybe I am just being stupid, but I can't seem to find the clipboard 
program, because....

a) Using the Cygwin setup wizard to attempt to update my installation, I 
checked a couple mirrors and they don't seem to have xwinclip -- they only 
seem to have XFree86-xwinclip.

b) I went to the XFree86 web site and then the xwinclip site 
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/xwinclip/
Obviously that page is long out of date so I don't know if I can trust 
anything it says about installation.  At this point I don' know how to get 
the program to install it.

c) Using your
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2003-10/msg00028.html
information, I am supposed to use the Cygwin installation wizard, but as I 
said in "a" above, I am not finding the program.

What am I missing?

Jay

Harold L Hunt II said the following on 11/18/2003 11:34 PM:
> xwinclip was updated on October 30th:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2003-10/msg00028.html
> 
> Using the integrated -clipboard support prevents you from restarting the 
> clipboard support if/when it dies.  I would recommend using xwinclip in 
> your case since you can restart it when it dies.  It also might not die 
> at all... since the external executable seems slightly more stable than 
> the internal client running in a thread.
> 
> You could also use the stand-alone xwinclip to delay the start of 
> xwinclip until after you are logged into XDMCP.  Kensuke backported the 
> update to -clipboard to xwinclip... that is what the xwinclip-1.2.0-1 
> package was for.  Note: XFree86-xwinclip is a dead package.  It was 
> renamed to just "xwinclip".
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Harold
> 
> Jay Smith wrote:
> 
>> 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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