Re: Small clipboard bug triggered by gvim

[Michael Schaap <cygwin at mscha dot org>]

On 29-Mar-2005 13:06, Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Michael Schaap wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently started using Cygwin/X a bit more, and it works amazingly well!
> >
> > I did, however, stumble upon a small bug using the built-in "-clipboard" 
> > handling: when using a GTK2 gvim, consecutive selections are not copied 
> > to the Windows clipboard.
> >
> >    
>
> This is most likely because gvim always holds the selection. 
> There is no clipboard in X11, just an information which application
> holds the selection. If an application wants to insert the selection 
> it sends an event to the selection owner and the owner sends back
> the selected data. This may change between calls. 
>
> The clipboard manager does not receive information that the clipboard 
> changed, so it will insert the old string regardless of changes in the
> client.
>
>  
Yeah, that'd do it... :-(
(This also explains why the standalone xwinclip doesn't have this 
problem: it keeps stealing the selection.)

Thanks,

– Michael