(2nd post) Copy/Paste problems due to speed of xdm login process

[Harold L Hunt II]

Jay,

The problem is known... please search the mailing list archives for more 
information.  I don't have a solution, I would appreciate any 
contributions (code, not discussion) that anyone has to offer on this.

Harold

Jay Smith wrote:

> [I posted this on the 24th, but it got no reply.  Any ideas on this? 
> Thanks.]
> 
> 
> Hi Harold, Kensuke, et al....
> 
> The copy/paste is working *much* better after your recent fix.  However, I
> am having a very serious problem with it -- the copy/paste functionality
> only works if I login *extremely* fast to the XDM.  I am a fast typist, but
> I can only login fast enough about half of the time.
> 
> About 18 months ago (?) back when we were using xwinclip -- before it was
> integrated into the main program -- we had to put a "sleep" into the script
> to provide enough time for the communication to take place so that xwinclip
> would function.
> 
> After xwinclip became integrated into the program, none of this was a
> problem, until I installed the new Cygwin a couple weeks ago.
> 
> Can you do something to allow adequate time to login so that the copy/paste
> will function?
> 
> Jay
>