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

[Harold L Hunt II]

Jay,

Jay Smith wrote:

> 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.

It's on mirrors.rcn.net.  Just confirmed and downloaded it.

> 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 Obviously that page is long out of date so I don't know if I can trust 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.

That development page is out of date because the distribution method 
changed to finally use setup.exe.  I will update it at some point, but 
it isn't very important at this time.

> 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?

Dunno.  You are choosing "Install from Internet", right?  The package is 
there... in the XFree86 category.  Make sure you are looking below the 
XFree86-* packages.

Harold