Pasting and copying between X and Windows

Erich Dollansky oceanare@pacific.net.sg
Tue Dec 4 05:49:00 GMT 2007


Hi,

a very rough method in an Windows environment is a fresh installation.

Try to start setup again and reinstall cygwin. It looks to me that some 
parts got not properly installed.

Erich

jose isaias cabrera wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> "Holger Krull" escribió,
>> jose isaias cabrera schrieb:
>>> cygwin XWin, I would love to paste and copy between the two worlds.  I
>>> have googled the issue, but nothing seems to be very updated.
>>> Everything seems to be old or has no real answer.
>>>
>>> Is this possible?
>>
>> Yes, add -clipboard to the Xwin Parameters.
> 
> 
> This is the command I am using to start XWin,
> 
> XWin -clipboard -query d-tuxedo
> 
> Here is the cygwin output:
> 
> 
> jicman 00:28:30-> XWin -clipboard -query d-tuxedo
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.99.901-4
> 
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> XWin -clipboard -query d-tuxedo.na.xde3.xerox.org
> 
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> (II) XF86Config is not supported
> (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more 
> information
> winPrefsLoadPreferences: /home/us319318/.XWinrc
> LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file...
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
> winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits 
> per pixel
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack 
> of shared memory support in the kernel
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
> (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"
> Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options 
> = "(null)"
> (--) 3 mouse buttons found
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing 
> from list!
> winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 697 486
> winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
> winProcEstablishConnection - Xdmcp enabled, waiting to start clipboard 
> client until fourth call.
> winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
> winProcEstablishConnection - Xdmcp enabled, waiting to start clipboard 
> client until fourth call.
> winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
> winProcEstablishConnection - Xdmcp enabled, waiting to start clipboard 
> client until fourth call.
> winInitClipboard ()
> winClipboardProc - Hello
> DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winProcQueryTree - winInitClipboard returned.
> winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
> winProcEstablishConnection - Clipboard client already launched, returning.
> winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the 
> display.
> 
> winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
> winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
> 
> winClipboardIOErrorHandler!
> 
> winClipboardProc - setjmp returned for IO Error Handler.
> 
> 
> and that is it.  Somehow, those Clipboard errors do not look correct...  
> By the way, I am able to paste within the XWin, but not from XWin to XP.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> thanks.
> 
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