RE: app launch and xwinclip problem

[Bradey Honsinger <BradeyH at construx dot com>]

For what it's worth, this problem (where running xwinclip hangs Microsoft
Office applications) appears to be solved in xwinclip-test06--it hasn't
occurred in the week or so that I've been running it, and it occurred
several times a day before that. It looks like it was actually solved in
xwinclip-test04--see the mailing list postings below.

Original report by Francois:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-12/msg00043.html
Report by Eric Peabody:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-06/msg00110.html
Reported fixed by Eric:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-q2/msg01121.html

I'm sure everybody involved knows this by now, I just wanted to pull
together the reports from Francois (hang on MS Office doc open, which I was
seeing) with those from Eric (slow IE launch from Outlook).

- Bradey


-----Original Message-----
From: Francois Perrot [mailto:francois.perrot@cgey.com]
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:47 AM
To: Bradey Honsinger
Cc: xfree-cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: app launch and xwinclip problem


Hi Bradley,

No response in the mailing list ? Simply because I didn't get any... 
by the way, I guess it's an xwinclip bug... and I just 'kill -1 xwinclip' to
fix the problem, and I won't blame anyone for that... It's such a great
thing to copy / paste between windows and xfree... and for that behavior,
you just need to know it... and when lauching an app on windows and get the
problem, just kill... (must say that murder has never been a solution for me
anyway...) 
What about creating a kwinclip alias to kill xwinclip ? You'll just need to
start xwinclip again... after...   

Hope this will help...

François

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bradey Honsinger 
To: 'francois.perrot@cgey.com' 
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 2:19 AM
Subject: app launch and xwinclip problem


I've also got the problem with Windows applications freezing when xwinclip
is running. I'm using XWin-Test53 and Cygwin 1.3.10, on Windows 2000 SP1
with Office 2000. Have you been able to figure out what's going on? I didn't
see any response on the cygwin-xfree mailing list.

- Bradey


app launch and xwinclip problem
From: "François PERROT" <francois dot perrot at cgey dot com> 
To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com> 
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:39:05 +0100 
Subject: app launch and xwinclip problem 
Hi all,

I have some problems when I try to open Microsoft office files by
double-click. When I do so, the app is not launched and the machine freezes
with 100 % cpu time used. When I kill -1 xwinclip, the app starts normally.
I first thought this was a Microsoft office files openning problem only but
I also have some xwinclip related problems with the windows time / date
properties panel, and with windows explorer when it's launched by
right-clicking on the start button.
For those two last exemples the symptoms are different as the app is
correctly launched but hangs until I kill xwinclip (kill -1 works)
The behaviour of xwinclip is : "OpenClipboard () failed" message and
xwinclip goes on working well, same message but I can paste on windows
environment (and it works on xfree/KDE), or xwinclip is no longer running at
all.
I'm using Xwin-test53, cygwin version is 1.3.3, KDE 1.2 beta (but I had the
same problems with twm, mwm and icewm) and xwinclip test 03. My win
environment is NT 4 sp 6 with 96 Mo.

I've searched the mailing-lists archives and didn't find any equivalent
problem, witch I find weird : many office users and only one with what
should be a common problem. Hey who put a spell on my machine ?!!