Intermittent X clipboard failure

[Danilo Turina]

I don't know, but when I have the problem, closing CLCL solves the issue.

Williams, Chris (Marlboro) wrote:
> If you don't use CLCL does everything work ok?
> 
> -Chris
> 
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> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Danilo Turina
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:36 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Intermittent X clipboard failure
> 
> I've got similar problems with the clipboard but with another clipboard 
> history tool (CLCL).
> It seems that, at some point, X puts something in the clipboard with a 
> format not correctly managed by CLCL and until I put something else in 
> the clipboard (and that's not always easy to achieve) the clipboard does
> 
> not work correctly.
> 
> Ciao,
> 	Danilo
> 
> Devin Armstrong wrote:
>> I have been experiencing this issue frequently ever since I "up"graded
>> to the new X server and xterm last month. I am using xterm. I haven't
>> tried rxvt. I have MS Office XP on WinXP SP2. Disabling the Office
>> Clipboard as suggested doesn't work for me. Once I get in this state
>> copy/paste functionality is broken for all apps. To get the Windows
>> clipboard working I have to kill the X server using Task Manager as
>> telling it to exit using the right-click menu on the X icon in
>> notification area doesn't work. It looks like the X server hangs on
>> shutdown.
>>
>> I have found that going back to xterm 229 works slightly better but
>> still has the issue (and that's kind of a pain as I have install some
>> obsolete libraries to get it working). This used to work without issue
>> with the old 6.8.x X servers. I have to have MS Outlook running at all
>> times as that is my work email client.
>>
>> Devin
>>
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