Re: RE: Intermittent X clipboard failure

[n05q4nn <n05q4nn at gmail dot com>]

I don't know if there is permanent fix for this but this is my workaround.

I faced similar issue after I upgraded my X server recently. Copy/paste 
between X and windows apps works fine as long as no MS Office 2003 apps 
are open. If Office apps are open, they hang immediately if I copy 
anything from X, e.g. xterm. Killing the hung Office apps usually 
restore my copy/paste function.

My workaround: disable the Office clipboard. This forces Office apps to 
use the Windows clipboard but the apps don't hang when I copy/paste from X.

To disable the Office clipboard:
  * On the Office Clipboard task pane, click Options.
  * Clear the Show Office Clipboard Automatically check box.
  * Clear the Show Office Clipboard When Ctrl+C Pressed Twice check box.
  * Clear the Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard check box.

YMMV


Williams, Chris (Marlboro) wrote:
> Hi,
> This clipboard failure happened again. This time I notice I could still
> copy from X apps to the Windows clipboard buffer. Also this time I
> copied some log information about the shutdown:
>
> ---- Start log clip ----
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
> winClipboardProc - winClipboardFlushWindowsMessageQueue trapped WM_QUIT
> message,
>  exiting main loop.
> winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded.
>
> winClipboardIOErrorHandler!
>
> ---- End log clip ----
>
> Anyone have any specific hints about hunting down this clipboard
> problem?
> Possibly apropos, anyone have any issues running the "Office Clipboard"
> that comes with MS Office 2003 with this new X server, X.Org 7.4?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Williams, Chris
> (Marlboro)
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:59 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Intermittent X clipboard failure
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been using the Xwin release 1.5.3.0 on XP SP2 and I'm experiencing
> odd copy/paste behavior.
> When I first start the X server with the "-clipboard" command-line
> option everything works fine, copy/paste to/from X apps with no problem.
> After a while, and unfortunately I don't know what event triggers this,
> Windows stops accepting clipboard data from the X apps and vice versa, I
> can't paste into any X app.
> The log isn't that much help, probably because I don't understand what
> I'm looking at. I do see messages like:
> winProcessXEventsTimeout - Call to select () failed: 0.  Bailing.
> winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionRequest - OpenClipboard () failed:
> 00000000
>
> If I restart the X server this problem goes away immediately. Or if I
> wait long it enough I stop seeing those log messages and the problem
> goes away on it's own apparently. Anyone else have this type of problem?
> I'm not even sure what the next step is as far as providing useful data
> for debugging purposes. I'll also add that I'm only talking about text
> copy here.
>
> Thank you,
> Chris
>
>
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