4th summary (was Re: [HEADSUP] ALL Maintainers, please reply.)

[Harold L Hunt II]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>The following is useful information from me...
>>[snip]
>>
>>>  xwinclip
>>
>>I'm still listed as the maintainer of this and I declare it obsolete.
>>I'm not going to maintain it anymore and it doesn't need to exist
>>anymore, so please remove it from the distribution.
> 
> 
> Harold, I recall that there was an issue with "XWin -clipboard -query",
> where in certain circumstances the clipboard thread didn't have permission
> to connect to the X server.  This was one argument for having a separate
> xwinclip application.  Your comment above implies that this issue is fixed
> in the newer X releases, right?
> 	Igor

I only put about a month into fixing that... the final design is that we 
register our own cookie with the server so that we can always connect, 
plus we overload ProcEstablishConnection to wait until several clients 
have connected (usually the Xdm server) before we connect; this causes 
us to be inserted into the connection list only after the Xdm server has 
killed all existing client connections.  xwinclip is an abomination that 
  still steals the ownership of the X selection and forces copies of 
data that are never pasted.  If there are any remaining problems with 
the new clipboard system and Xdmcp (I'm pretty sure there are not), then 
they need to be fixed (not too hard, this would just be tweaks to the 
existing work-around), rather than providing the broken alternative that 
is xwinclip.

Here's the last time I fixed a problem related to the clipboard support 
and Xdmcp (21 months to the day):

http://x.cygwin.com/devel/server/changelog-100.html

Release 4.3.0-34
Released: 2004-01-10 0200 EST


Harold