XWin causes Windows apps to hang(?)

[Alexander Gottwald]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> 0 is ERROR_SUCCESS which means "The operation completed successfully"
> I guess the clipboard was opened successfully but returned a wrong
> error condition. After bailing out we leave the clipboard in an open
> state and other programs can not access it anymore.
>
> I guess this is worth a try:
>
> from winclipboardwrappers.c:461
>
>   /* Access the Windows clipboard */
>   if (!OpenClipboard (g_hwndClipboard))
>     {
>       DWORD errorcode = GetLastError();
>       ErrorF ("winProcSetSelectionOwner - OpenClipboard () failed: %08x\n",
>             (int) errorcode);
>       if (errorcode != ERROR_SUCCESS)
>         goto winProcSetSelectionOwner_Done;
>     }

This was a deadend too. I had XWin running with this change and it
produced logmessages (from memory):

OpenClipboard () failed: 0000000
EmptyClipboard () failed: $NUMBER (Clipboard not open error)

bye
   ago
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