Reproducing the cygwin X problems

[Jon TURNEY]

Dan Tsafrir wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Mike Ayers wrote:
>>        I can neither confirm nor deny this, as I don't have ClipBook available.
> 
> Did you try to run 'clipbrd' through start->run ?
> 
> 
>>        I just kill Xwin.exe forcibly in task manager - it takes all X apps with it.
> 
> Right.
> 
> 
>>  However, the better trick I discovered recently is to click on VNC's taskbar
>> icon and close it.  Once it closes, the X applications recover and can
>> cut-n-pste with Windows apps.  Also, because VNC is VNC, no setup
>> is lost there either - I can reconnect and my console is unharmed.
> 
> This too works for me (but as you say, only if I kill the vncviewer
> through the context menu that pops up when right clicking its taskbar
> icon; strangely, killing it through the top right x doesn't produce a
> similar effect). Thanks!
> 
> 
>> I suspect the problem here may be contention between the two applications
>> that want to share the clipboard.  Our other report implicated Office clipboard,
>> which may be doing the same thing..?

Dan & Mike,

Thanks very much for this information on the clipboard problems.  I've been 
able to reproduce something similar to the problems you describe, so I will 
spend some time trying to fix it.

It seems likely that this clipboard contention between multiple applications 
might behave differently on machines with multi-core processors (which I don't 
have the capability to test on), so can you indicate if you are using 
single-core or multi-core processor?




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