copy+paste large amount of text -- workaround

["Mordechai T. Abzug" <morty+cygwin at frakir dot org>]

One of my users at work had problems when copy+pasting large amounts
of text from cygwin's Xfree86 into Windows.  In particular, he get the
following error:

winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - X*TextPropertyToTextList returned: XConverterNotFound.

I upgraded his cygwin packages to the latest packages, which helped
get rid of this error, but didn't allow the copy+pasting to work.

Looking online, this is a known bug:

  http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00416.html

  http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00417.html

  http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00065.html

I've found a workaround: run xclipboard.  For whatever reason, with
xclipboard running in background, copy+paste large amounts of text
works fine.

[I'm not normally subscribed to this list, but figured I should "give
back".]

- Morty

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