Pasting and copying between X and Windows

[jose isaias cabrera]

"Erich Dollansky" escribió,

> 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.

I have another laptop that I will have to setup the same.  I will see what 
happens there.

thanks. 


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