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Re: I've lost cut and paste - any ideas why?
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Chris Green wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:13:59PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> > winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
> > winProcEstablishConnection - Xdmcp enabled, waiting to start clipboard client un
> > til fourth call.
> > winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
> > winProcEstablishConnection - Xdmcp enabled, waiting to start clipboard client un
> > til fourth call.
> > winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
> > winProcEstablishConnection - Xdmcp enabled, waiting to start clipboard client un
> > til fourth call.
> > winInitClipboard ()
> > winProcQueryTree - winInitClipboard returned.
> > winClipboardProc - Hello
> > DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
> > winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1.0
> > winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
> > winProcEstablishConnection - Clipboard client already launched, returning.
> > winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display.
> > winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
> > winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
> >
> > winClipboardIOErrorHandler!
> >
> > winClipboardProc - setjmp returned for IO Error Handler.
> > winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
> >
> > There are too many clients connecting before the actual login process connects.
> > I'm thinking about various solutions:
> >
> > o make the number of clients configurable (it is hardcoded to 4 now)
> > - quite easy work
> > - not very userfriendly
> > o make clipboard thread recover from errors (shutdown and restart)
> > - very hard to build
> > - will work in all cases
> >
> > Number 1 is something I will come up in the next days. The second needs at least
> > some days to come up wit a clear design and even longer to implement and test.
> >
> Thanks for looking into it and reporting what you found. I'll look
> and check to see if my error log reports the same.
>
> Would a strategically placed sleep anywhere help?
No. The clipboard thread is started internally.
> Unfortunately I can't go back to xdm as I couldn't get it to work on
> my Slackware 10, I *think* it's something to do with it being compiled
> for ipv6. Maybe I should try building a version from source with ipv6
> disabled, I've no need for all the extras that gdm provides, I just
> used it because it worked.
wdm is working well on debian. Maybe it is available on slackware too
bye
ago
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