XWin -clipboard and xterm focus

[Harold L Hunt II]

Peter,

You need to do a general update of Cygwin by rerunning Cygwin's 
setup.exe and letting it upgrade updated packages.

For example, the XFree86-xserv package is now at version 4.3.0-50; you 
have version 4.3.0-20 installed.  Let me just say that *substantial* 
changes in functionality have been made in those last 30 releases.

If you still have the same problems after upgrading, feel free to reask 
your questions.

Harold

Peter Wisnovsky wrote:

> I'm using the XFree86 stuff to run my bash shells on cygwin and am using the
> following to start my X session.
> 
> xinit -- Xwin -clipboard -multiwindow &
> 
> [I've tried various combinations of -multiwindow and -rootless]
> 
> In multiwindow mode xterms only seem to have keyboard focus if the mouse is
> in
> the xterm window. Is there any way to configure it so that the xterm has
> keyboard focus if its in front? It seems to pick up a few characters after
> the mouse leaves, but then stops.
> 
> 
> Also...the -clipboard setting doesn't have any discernable effect. I put
> this in based on
> 
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/configure-cygwin-xfree-options.html
> 
> but I have to use the standalone Xwinclip. I'm running
> 
> % cygcheck -c  | grep XFree
> XFree86-base            4.3.0-1            OK
> XFree86-bin             4.3.0-5            OK
> XFree86-etc             4.3.0-3            OK
> XFree86-f100            4.2.0-3            OK
> XFree86-fenc            4.2.0-3            OK
> XFree86-fnts            4.2.0-3            OK
> XFree86-fscl            4.2.0-3            OK
> XFree86-fsrv            4.3.0-4            OK
> XFree86-lib             4.3.0-1            OK
> XFree86-lib-compat      4.3.0-1            OK
> XFree86-man             4.3.0-2            OK
> XFree86-startup-scripts 4.2.0-5            OK
> XFree86-xserv           4.3.0-20           OK
> XFree86-xwinclip        4.3.0-1            OK
> 
> I notice there is no reference to -clipboard in my XWin(1) manual page.
> 
> Peter