1.5.0: rxvt copy/paste problems

[Rolf Campbell]

When I have CYGWIN=tty, I was able to reproduce the same exact problem.

David Rothenberger wrote:
> I did some more testing.  The problem only occurs if CYGWIN=tty.
> Without the tty option, everything works fine.
> 
> I'm having this problem on two separate Win2kPro SP4 machines.  I
> did a clean Cygwin installation with only Base package this morning
> and the problem still occurs.
> 
> Rolf, do you use "tty" in your CYGWIN variable?  If not, can you try
> it?  If so, would you mind posting your cygcheck output, or emailing
> it to me privately, so I can investigate further?
> 
> -Dave
> 
> Rolf Campbell writes:
>  > I am unable to reproduce using 1.5.0/Win2000ProSp4
>  > 
>  > David Rothenberger wrote:
>  > > I'm seeing some weird, new behavior with rxvt under cygwin-1.5.0-1
>  > > related to copy/paste and its interaction with the Windows
>  > > clipboard.  All of the weirdness described below goes away when I
>  > > revert to 1.3.22.  I'm running under Win2k Pro SP4.
>  > > 
>  > > It seems that if I startup rxvt directly from Windows (Run box or
>  > > cmd.exe shell), that rxvt works fine wrt copy/paste.  But, if I
>  > > start bash or ash first, and then start rxvt from there, the rxvt
>  > > copy/paste does not interact with the Windows clipboard at all.
>  > > Also, it seems that two rxvt windows start from the same bash/ash
>  > > process can copy/paste between one another, but not if they are
>  > > started from a different bash/ash process.
> 
> 



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