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Re: test case for clipboard hang?
- From: Lev Bishop <lev dot bishop at yale dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:53:27 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: test case for clipboard hang?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Harold wrote:
> Simple test case: don't use "-clipboard", select some text in a xterm,
> unselect it, then right-click in another xterm... I don't think you'll
> see any text pasted unless there is a clipboard manager of some sort
> running (i.e. don't do this in Xdmcp).
Actually, you generally *will* see text pasted in this situation: xterm,
as it is usually configured, makes use of CUT_BUFFER0, the obsolete way of
doing cutting and pasting, that is more like windows than x selections.
Lev