Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text

[Brian Kelly <reedfish at ix dot netcom dot com>]

Also - tried GVim, and it locked when I only got one character highlighted. Tried minTTY, and it works perfectly (of course it's not X-based). The cut-and-paste works flawlessly.

Again, why "X" highlighting and cut-and-paste worked yesterday and not today is the real mystery. The machine has been rebooted numerous times as well - to no avail.

Brian Kelly


-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Kelly 
>Sent: Sep 14, 2010 2:52 PM

>Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text
>
>Thanks Jon for the quick reply. I attached a new log file generated with an attempt to highlight - followed by the "hang".
>
>Again, this worked PERFECTLY just yesterday. I ran a chkdsk on my system just about an hour ago, and while it repaired a few files, the problem remains.
>
>I'll try your -noclipboard suggestion, but unfortunately for me, I do a lot of pasting back and forth between cygwin and native windows. I may have to go back to using the CMD based bash shell console window that is the cygwin default.
>
>Not relishing that thought ...
>
>Re-imaging my machine is not really an option either - that could set me back a "week".
>
>Brian Kelly
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jon TURNEY 
>>Sent: Sep 14, 2010 1:47 PM
>
>>Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text
>>
>>On 14/09/2010 18:51, Brian Kelly wrote:
>>> I've been using Cygwin X trouble-free for years, and am running the latest
>>> distribution of X and the Cygwin1.dll for at least two weeks (since the
>>> Cygwin 1.7.7.1 release). It's been fine until this morning when it started
>>> locking on me whenever I used the mouse to highlight text. I have NO IDEA
>>> what changed on my system to now cause this behavior. **ANY** help you can
>>> give to assist me would be most appreciated since I use it for all my
>>> development efforts.
>>
>>This is very likely to be some sort of problem with the clipboard integration 
>>code.
>>
>>You might find that using the '-noclipboard' option works around the problem 
>>(at the cost of not being able to cut/paste between Windows and X apps).
>>
>>An xserver log with '-logverbose 3' might shed a bit more light on what's 
>>going on.
>>
>>-- 
>>Jon TURNEY
>>Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer


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