Re: more in insert and copy from clipboard

[david at adboyd dot com (J. David Boyd)]

"Peter Valdemar Morch" <swp5jhu02@sneakemail.com> writes:

> J. David Boyd david-at-adboyd.com |Lists| wrote:
>> Okay, thanks, I'll start hanging out on the Cygwin/Xfree location.
>> Makes sense, now I know where to start looking.
>> Actually, I was under the impression that these lists didn't like or
>> allow attachments.  It must be list dependent.
>
> Man, that must be frustrating. Clipboard unreliability was the main
> reason I switched from XThinPro to cygwin's X server.
>
>> Last week (two, three weeks ago?) I would have used the mouse to
>> highlight the text in firefox (notepad, openoffice.org), then pressed
>> Ctl-Ins to copy it into the clipboard. (Or clicked on copy in the
>> menus, it worked either way.) Then I would have moved into my xterm,
>> and type 'wget ' and then pressed shift-ins, to paste from the
>> clipboard.  I hit enter, and wget worked perfect.
>
> I can confirm that. That works here.
>
> Helping you grab at straws:
>
> You can see what is going on the with the windows clipboard run-time
> with the clipboard viewer:
> C:\WINNT\system32\clipbrd.exe
> on my W2K. Is there any such thing in X, anybody?
>
> A few additional test cases:
>
> The middle mouse button is the scroll-wheel on my two-button+wheel
> mouse. emacs calls it "mouse-2", and hitting CTRL and then pressing
> that mouse-wheel-button, mouse-2, in an xterm gives me the "VT
> Options" menu. Now you know what button I mean.
>
> * Same test case as before, put some text on the windows clipboard
>   (check with clipboard viewer) and then press the mouse-2 button (no
>   CTRL) in the xterm, that pastes the windows clipboard contents in
>   the xterm, right? (Note, no keyboard for paste) Here: yes - pass
>
> * Using the xterm, if you highlight something with the mouse (just
> highlight - no keypresses) does that make it to the windows clipboard?
> (As seen in the clipboard viewer?) Here: yes - pass
>
> I only use xemacs, and never emacs, but while looking at this, I started
> emacs. It complained about my start up files, some of which are
> xemacs-only, so that doesn't surprise me. But I saw that selecting
> something in emacs and then hitting ctrl-ins didn't put it into the
> windows clipboard - your symptoms. However, starting emacs as "emacs
> -q" skipping the startup files altogether made emacs behave "right"
> with my
> clipboard. Does emacs -q work for you? (X)Emacs also has its own
> "kill-ring" which just complicates matters... xterms are simpler! :-D
>
> And I don't think you've posted /tmp/XWin.log yet...
>
> Peter
>
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Well, I do see some errors occassionaly in my /tmp/XWin.log file, but, after
rebooting the other morning, cut and paste is again working.  It has quit
working several times since then, but a quick reboot brings it back.

Windows!

Thanks for the info on clipbrd, I didn't know that was there, and it was a
handy debugging tool.

Dave


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