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Re: more in insert and copy from clipboard
- From: "J. David Boyd" <david at adboyd dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 16:32:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: more in insert and copy from clipboard
- References: <m3irykgzyb.fsf@freewill.adboyd.com><Pine.GSO.4.61.0508051444190.20282@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: more in insert and copy from clipboard
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:47:18 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Ah, so you're using an xterm. This makes the question off-topic for this
> list. I've redirected my reply to the right list, and set the Reply-To:
> accordingly. Please remove <cygwin at cygwin dot com> from further
> discussion of this, unless it veers back to something relevant to Cygwin
> at large, and not just Cygwin/X.
Okay, thanks, I'll start hanging out on the Cygwin/Xfree location.
>
> This has nothing to do with Cygwin settings -- it's an internal setting of
> the X server. My guess would be that either the clipboard thread isn't
> starting properly, or you need to run xwinclip instead of using the
> -clipboard parameter. Looking at (and posting) /tmp/XWin.log would help.
>
> The X clipboard settings are generally confusing -- they have at least 4
> clipboards, only one of which corresponds to the system clipboard. As far
> as I know, the recent X servers are pretty good at doing the copy/paste
> with the system clipboard, but there's always the possibility of
> misconfiguration or some other factor that affects this. Perhaps the
> people on the Cygwin/X list will have more helpful comments.
Makes sense, now I know where to start looking.
> That's why we prefer it attached to the message, rather than included
> inline. At first glance[*], nothing looks wrong.
Actually, I was under the impression that these lists didn't like or allow
attachments. It must be list dependent.
Thanks for the info,
Dave
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