Clipboard integration does not work with XDMCP

Claude Sylvain csylvain@electro-technica.com
Sun Feb 23 02:54:00 GMT 2014


On 02/22/2014 08:36 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:

 >
 > Thanks for reporting this problem, and the clear reproduction steps.
 >
 > The issue here is that the XDMCP login dialog kills all other X clients
 > (including the clipboard integration client) for security.  The clipboard
 > integration client is supposed to restart and reconnect as necessary, but it
 > seems this has been broken for a while.
 >
 > I've has a go at fixing this and uploaded a snapshot at [1].  Perhaps you
 > could try that and see if it improves things for you?
 >
 > [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20140222-git-c14d82e878fc884d.exe.bz2
 >

I also noticed this problem, and tested your fix, above [1].
After applying your fix, Xwin clipboard transaction between local
machine and remote machine (through XDMCP) seems to be functional.


Claude




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