clipboard issue

[John J. McDonough]

Of course, if you aren't getting Xwin started properly, you can't count on 
it to work.  Cutting and pasting between Windows and X is a little weird, 
because each uses its own model.

To copy something in an X window, simply highlight it. This does place it in 
the clipboard.  To paste, click the center mouse button.

Windows cut/paste has a bunch of possibilities, but to copy highlight, then 
select Copy from the menu, type Cntl+C or type Cntl+Insert.  To paste, 
select paste from the menu, type Cntl+V or Shift+Insert.

By the way, I tend to do this an awful lot between Cygwin and Windows, for 
whatever reason, it seems a little cranky in the address bar of a browser, 
but everything else seems to work just fine.

Hope this helps

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon Metcalf" <bmetcalf@nortel.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:47 AM
Subject: clipboard issue


> I'm trying to get copy and paste working between X applications and
> Windows.  I'm running Cygwin 1.5.23(0.156/4/2) on Windows XP
> Professional.  When I run startxwin.sh, the last lines are
>
>  winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting
>  winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting
>
> If I comment out the line that launches an xterm, these messages go
> away.  In any event, I can't figure out how to cut and paste between X
> and windows applications.  I've searched the docs, but don't see
> anything about what style of cut and paste I should expect.  That is,
> is it like X by using the mouse buttons or some other key sequence?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Brandon
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