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Re: Please try newest snapshot (was Re: emacs-x11: new clipboard size limitation?)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:42:50 -0500
- Subject: Re: Please try newest snapshot (was Re: emacs-x11: new clipboard size limitation?)
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:10:40PM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>Am 2013-12-10 21:40, schrieb Jon TURNEY:
>> On 04/12/2013 22:14, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>>> Around 2013-12-04 16:59 Jon TURNEY was heard to say:
>>>> On 04/12/2013 08:09, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>>>>> Am 2013-12-03 22:10, schrieb Christopher Faylor:
>>>>>> I added an ugly hack to work around this symptom in the latest
>>>>>> cygwin.
>>>>>> It shouldn't have any big impact on anything but this particular
>>>>>> scenario but I would appreciate it if people downloaded today's
>>>>>> snapshot
>>>>>> and verified that things are still working ok.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I plan on addressing the actual problem for Cygwin 1.7.28.
>>>>>
>>>>> the nightly snapshot does not seem to do me any good with regard to
>>>>> the
>>>>> clipboard problem. I performed the following test, and I hope this
>>>>> is what you
>>>>> had in mind:
>>>>
>>>> There is also a bug in xwinclip which needs fixing for this test to
>>>> work
>>>> reliably, but it was difficult to see what that was without this fix
>>>> in the
>>>> cygwin DLL.
>>>
>>> I see. Let me know whenever it makes sense to do any further testing.
>>
>> I just uploaded X server 1.14.4-2, which should have this fixed.
>>
>> (With cygwin DLL prior to the nightly snapshot of 2013-12-04, you may
>> see
>> "Spurious wake" recorded in XWin's log, but pasting should still work
>> correctly)
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>this is just to confirm that the problem appears to be fixed after I
>updated my installation today, using cygwin 1.7.27-2 and xorg-server
>1.14.4-2. Thanks to you and Christopher for making things work again.
Good to hear. Thanks for letting us know.
cgf
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