can't paste from Windows to X clients

Ken Dibble kdibbleNOSPAM@alltel.net
Tue Aug 10 18:12:00 GMT 2004


I have this problem intermittently.
It seems to only happen when I forget to hit Ctrl-C on the windows side.
I forget that just highlighting the text isn't good enough after being 
spoiled on the X side.


Andrew Schulman wrote:

>I run XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100 .  I can copy and paste from X 
>to Windows clients, but not from Windows to X clients.  Windows to Windows 
>and X to X copies also work fine.
>
>I know I've seen postings about this problem in the past, but I can't find 
>anything recent about it and I don't know what the status is.  The problem 
>has persisted for me for a long time, on two different Windows XP boxes.
>
>Any help appreciated.  cygcheck -svr is attached.
>Andrew.
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