Copy / Paste

[Harold L Hunt II]

Cliff,

Cliff Stanford wrote:
> Copy and paste to and from windows applications seems to be a lot more 
> stable now with the latest patches (thanks).  However, I still have the 
> problem that, when I highlight something in an X window, it immediately 
> un-highlights itself.

Yes.

> I start XWin from /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat with the following command:
> 
> start XWin -multiwindow -nounixkill -clipboard -nowinkill
> 
> If I leave off the -clipboard, highlighting works as expected.  If I 
> then run clipbrd.exe I get the same behaviour as with the -clipboard 
> option.
> 
> Is this expected behaviour?  Or am I doing something wrong?

Yes, it is expected.

I have written many messages about this before.  I am surprised you 
haven't seen one yet.  Here is one of my more recent messages on how 
development is going:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-06/msg00146.html

I succeeded in using XFIXES to detect when the clipboard contents had 
changed.  However, that introduced a new problem of having to flag which 
application changed the clipboard and stop trying to notify and copy the 
contents on those changes.  The problem here was that the clipboard 
change detection caused an infinite loop.  I made a quick and dirty 
change to stop the loop; it worked but I needed to spend more time 
looking into how it should be done properly.

So, development is stuck now since I am working 30 or more hours a week 
and spending about 20 hours a week on my master's CS degree classes. 
The code is in the XFIXES_BRANCH in our xoncygwin CVS tree (see the 
message above for more details, I think), if you are interested in 
working on it.

Harold

> P.S.  And does anyone have a cure for my constantly pressing the 
> right-button in windows applications and wondering why it doesn't paste 
> anything? :-)

Yes, in Windows XP, turn on the 'quick edit' more for the command shell. 
  This enables right-click to paste the current clipboard contents in 
your Cygwin bash shell.  Other than that, good luck.  :)