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Re: Clipboard progress
- From: Chris Green <chris at areti dot co dot uk>
- To: cygx <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:21:27 +0000
- Subject: Re: Clipboard progress
- References: <3FFA5A38.2090705@msu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: chris dot green at isbd dot co dot uk
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:48:24AM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> 2) The only problem with step #1 is that we have to detect when we are
> doing an XDMCP connection and delay the clipboard client connecting to
> the X Server until the XDMCP connection has been made. If we don't,
> then the XDMCP code will perform a server reset, the clipboard client
> will re-attach, XDMCP will perform a reset, ad nauseum. Well, it isn't
> quite that bad because the clipboard client crashes the server shortly
> after the first reset :) I can detect when XDMCP is being used, but I
> haven't found a good way to detect that XDMCP has connected to the X
> server... I suppose I could monitor the total client count and use that
> as a signal, but I would have to poll it. More later.
>
Ah! So that explains why I need the sleep between the -query call
which makes the XDMCP connection and calling xwinclip (I'm still using
the separate xwinclip).
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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)