Status of "lost cut and paste" issue?

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Auz wrote:

> Hi, I seem to be suffering this issue: 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com/msg13265.html / 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-12/msg00161.html
> 
> I'm running XP on one side, Fedora Core 3 on the other. I'm launching 
> cygwin/x (Release: 6.8.1.0-9) with
> 
> winClipboardIOErrorHandler!
> 
> winClipboardProc - setjmp returned for IO Error Handler.
> 
> Is there any news on a fix, or a work-around?

No. gdm has an unusal startup sequence which interferes with the clipboard integration.
As alternative you might use wdm, kdm or xdm which are reported to work fine.

bye	
	ago
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