Pasting and copying between X and Windows

Wed Oct 29 22:24:00 GMT 2008

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jose isaias cabrera" <cabrera@wrc.xerox.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: Pasting and copying between X and Windows

> "Erich Dollansky" escribiÃ³,
>
>> 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" escribiÃ³,
>>>> 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.

Ok, so now I have 3 windows machines with the same problem.  Here is the 
XWin.log of the other one.  Can it be the Solaris X host that is doing this? 
Is there something I am not choosing in the cygwin setup that I may be 
omitting?

Any ideas? 
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