Clipboard periodically breaks

[Matt D.]

Reinier,

This was indeed fixed in the last version of XWin. Try updating.

However, copy/paste for large blocks of text seems to have broken.


Matt D.

On 10/21/2013 10:46 AM, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Thu Sep 26 20:35:21 2013, matt@codespunk.com (Matt D.) wrote:
>> Jon,
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this. I can confirm that your changes
>> correct the issue where highlighting next would cause arbitrary
>> pastes to occur. Good work!
>>
>> I also concede that there does not seem to be a good solution to
>> transparently fix the two-to-one clipboard issue; as XWin may indeed
>> be able to interpret calls to X's two clipboards, there wouldn't be
>> any reasonable way for it to identify which clipboard is actually
>> being used.
>
> I'm reading this wich much interest: for me, too, copy-pasting
> between Windows applications and Cygwin xterms to break after some time,
> and this has been happening for a year or so.
>
> I'm not aware of doing anything special to cause it to break,
> but the only way I know how to fix it is to restart X.
> This is with recent Cygwin packages on Windows 7.
>
> I haven't tested with a newer build of the X server.
>
>> However, an environment variable that tells it which clipboard to
>> use would provide an immediate solution and be used used on a
>> per-application basis. For example, I can use aliases when launching
>> programs:
>>
>> $ xclip=clipboard1 gedit $@ (monitor only clipboard 1)
>> $ xclip=clipboard2 gedit $@ (monitor only clipboard 2)
>>
>> No option would indicate that both clipboard 1 and clipboard 2 would
>> be handled as they are now.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with X programming but I'm assuming here that it
>> would be possible for xclip to read from a particular process's own
>> environment (rather than xclip's own) while processing a clipboard
>> event to do this.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> As an interested bystander, I have no doubt that that type of
> specific solution to specific clipboard interaction problems can
> possibly work, but using them will require detailed knowledge of how
> the X and Windows clipboards interact.
>
> My question is different: is it possible to implement the interaction
> in such a way that a user such as me, who is not aware of any subtleties,
> can get consistency, in the sense that all copy-paste actions between
> X an Windows that work when X is started continue to work in the same way
> for the duration of the session?
>
>> Matt D.
>

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