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Re: Reproducing the cygwin X problems
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Mike Ayers <mike_ayers@tvworks.com> wrote:
>
> I can neither confirm nor deny this, as I don't have ClipBook available.
Did you try to run 'clipbrd' through start->run ?
> I just kill Xwin.exe forcibly in task manager - it takes all X apps with it.
Right.
> However, the better trick I discovered recently is to click on VNC's taskbar
> icon and close it. Once it closes, the X applications recover and can
> cut-n-pste with Windows apps. Also, because VNC is VNC, no setup
> is lost there either - I can reconnect and my console is unharmed.
This too works for me (but as you say, only if I kill the vncviewer
through the context menu that pops up when right clicking its taskbar
icon; strangely, killing it through the top right x doesn't produce a
similar effect). Thanks!
> I suspect the problem here may be contention between the two applications
> that want to share the clipboard. Our other report implicated Office clipboard,
> which may be doing the same thing..?
I strongly suspect cygwin's xorg is solely to blame: this problem was
created immediately after my last upgrade of cygwin during which I
unwittingly moved from xfree to xorg. (This is only one of the things
that want bad for me; I wish there was a way to return to xfree until
most of the problems are resolved.)
--Dan
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