Strange interaction between Cygwin/X and Mozilla Firefox Bookmarks

[Falk Tannhäuser]

Am 24.09.2013 20:49, schrieb Jon TURNEY:
> This is indeed a strange interaction.  The problem seems to be (i) (for some
> reason) Firefox asks for the current clipboard contents when any of the
> bookmarks are clicked on, (ii) gnuplot puts an image of the current plot in
> the PRIMARY selection, and (iii) a previous fix to clipboard integration code
> [1] has the unforeseen negative side-effect that when the monitored selection
> cannot be converted to text, the clipboard integration code sits there waiting
> for up to a second, which blocks the Windows application which asked for the
> clipboard contents (Firefox in this case)
>
> Thanks for reporting this problem.
>
> I've added a patch which tries to fix this behaviour by actually checking if
> the selection can be converted to a text format before trying, and uploaded a
> snapshot at [2]. Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you?
>
> [1]
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=a9aca218f557c723e637287272819a7c17174e1e
> [2] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20130924-git-d5a9aea0e48a088b.exe.bz2
>

Thank you very much - this fixes the problem with gnuplot and FF for me. 
I tested it under Windows 7 (due to a HD crash I have  no longer access 
to a Windows XP system).
By the way, similar symptoms as described in my original posting occur 
also with the 64-bit versions of XWin and gnuplot.

Falk

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