Clipboard error - trace owner?

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Nov 3 11:28:00 GMT 2014


On 31/10/2014 16:20, Nem W Schlecht wrote:
> After a *very* long time of the clipboard working perfectly, it just
> started to stop working on me:
>
> [252960.192] winClipboardFlushXEvents - OpenClipboard () failed:
> 00000005 Owner 0002089e
> [252960.192] winClipboardFlushXEvents - OpenClipboard () failed:
> 00000005 Owner 0002089e
> [253010.517] winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 1600 new
> height: 1200 new bpp: 32
> [253380.957] winClipboardFlushXEvents - OpenClipboard () failed:
> 00000005 Owner 0002089e
> [253445.199] winClipboardFlushXEvents - OpenClipboard () failed:
> 00000005 Owner 0002089e
>
> How do I trace the owner HEX code to the program that is causing the
> issue? (Or is the owner X11 here?)

This is a window handle (HWND).  You could find out the corresponding 
window using a tool such as Spy++.

I will improve this so that the window title is reported here as well, 
which would be much better, but that is not quite straightforward.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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