Re: Feature request: version report

[Ed Avis <ed at membled dot com>]

Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> writes:

>Regarding xwinclip, you should really be using (XWin -clipboard)

There are a couple of problems with -clipboard (discussed earlier on
this list) which have led me to switch back to xwinclip:

- Clipboard support seems to die, that is, the Windows clipboard and
  the X selection stop affecting one another.  xwinclip also tends to
  die occasionally but when this happens it can be restarted.

- Windows apps hanging when I try to paste into them.  This seems to
  have started since I began using two displays (though I am not 100%
  sure).  This bug reliably kills any Windows application so it is too
  dangerous for me to run XWin with clipboard enabled.  I have not
  seen this problem with xwinclip.

If you could add some means to manually kill and/or restart the
clipboard code inside the X server then I could switch back without
the risk of losing work, and I'd be happy to report the contents of
Xwin.log on the occasions when such a manual restart was necessary.

(In general, I think the clipboard support could be a bit noisier in
its logging since the contents of XWin.log never seems to give much
away about clipboard or selection change events - but maybe it is more
informative to you than to me.)

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Ed Avis <ed@membled.com>