I have a persistent problem at work after XWin has been running for a
while (sometimes hours, sometimes days). Windows programs will
spontaneously freeze
For example,
I'm composing a message in Outlook, and all of a sudden, my keyboard
stops responding, then I'll get the Windows hourglass in that window.
Or I'll be surfing in Firefox and window changes just stop, again
hourglass. Once this happens, killing XWin.exe from the task manager
immediately releases the hang condition(s), though the hang may
release itself if I wait several minutes (yeah, right). At this
point, I can re-start XWin, but later on, it will happen again.
I'm starting XWin.exe from the install shortcut:
C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
I'm running the latest of Cygwin everything, the problem has been
across several (many) releases of the Xorg server. I think it's using
the default options for multi-monitor, cut/paste, etc. I can usually
copy/paste between XWin and MS Windows (and usually Citrix) without
any problems. I keep thinking that the problem is something in the
XWin code that interfaces to Windows' copy/paste engine (OLE?).