Cygwin/X crashes when using -clipboard; Win95; switched fromG nome to KDE on linux

[Jay Smith]

Wilks, Dan said the following on 06/28/2004 05:31 PM:
> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> 
> 
>>Jay Smith wrote:
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>>
>>>Hi Alexander,
>>>
>>>Yes, I did get crashing from "simple cases" (i.e. plain text in a basic
> 
> KDE
> 
>>>xterm [konsole]).  In a couple cases the crash was within a few seconds
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> and
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>>>in other cases I was able to do two or three copy/paste operations
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> before
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>>>it crashed.
>>
>>konsole is different from xterm. konsole most likely uses qt functions for
>>clipboard handling. But i doubt this makes any difference.
>>
>>
>>>I am afraid that I haven't a clue how to track this down myself.
>>>
>>>Does this error message give you any ideas?
>>>    winClipboardErrorHandler - ERROR:
>>>        BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
>>
>>No. Unfortunatly not. This error could result from any x11 call in the
>>clipboard thread. I could add more output which at least prints the
>>function called but this will only give minor hints. To find the code
>>where it fails one would have to debug XWin.
>>
>>
>>>Does the rest of the log output (in my original post) look correct? Are
>>>there any clues there?
>>>
>>>If this can't be solved, then it may mean that Windows 95 may be no
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> longer
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>>>supported for Cygwin/X.
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> 
> I haven't been watching this entire thread but there is additional logging
> code in the sources that I don't think have made it into an official 
> release.  Also, I did fix a few bugs that could cause a crash when text
> was copied from X.  Jay, have you tried building your own XWin32 from
> the CVS sources?  If you have, then you could try using -logverbose 3
> to get additional clipboard messages.
> 
> Dan

Hi Dan,

No, I have not tried building...  I don't have the knowledge/skill without 
very detailed instructions.  I am willing to try anything to help fix 
things, but I am ignorant of how to do this stuff.

Jay