XWin hangs upon text selection [error: clipboard does not contain CF_TEXT nor CF_UNICODETEXT]

[Alexander Gottwald]

Saurabh Srivastava wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed Cygwin/X on my PC running WinME, on
> Dec-24-2004 using setup.exe.  For some reason XWin
> just hangs / freezes (almost) everytime I select text
> in an xterm running bash shell.
>
> I did search the FAQ and the mailing lists. I found
> some postings related to above problem but I didn't
> see any solution.
>
> I've captured and pasted the logs (using verbosity
> level set to 10) at the end of the mail. The last line
> in /tmp/XWin.log is the following: "clipboard does not
> contain CF_TEXT nor CF_UNICODETEXT"

These bugs are usually hard to debug. Can you describe how
exactly you can reproduce it?

bye
        ago
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