Fwd: Limited clipboard buffer between X11 apps and Microsoft Windows

[Kevin Connor Arpe]

Hello,

Firstly, big shout out to all the incredible volunteers on this
project.  My life is infinitely more technically manageable on
Microsoft Windows thanks to Cygwin.  I get that Linux feeling
everyday.

My issue: Copying text between X11 apps and Microsoft Windows has
limited clipboard buffer.  My office co-worker and I were able to
replicate the same issue on our machines.

To replicate:
1) Run Cygwin X Server locally.
2) Run gedit remotely (using company Linux hosts) and redirect display
to our local Cygwin X Server.
3) Copy some text in gedit, paste in Windows app, e.g. Notepad.

We are able to find a limit (approximately 1000+ lines of text).  To
be very clear:  We can copy small amounts to text, but not large
amounts of text.

My co-worker found this historical Cygwin mailing list item.  It looks
very similar:
http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/emacs-x11-new-clipboard-size-limitation-td104696.html

When the copy/paste fails, I see the following in /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log:
[298268.591] winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify -
X*TextPropertyToTextList returned: XConverterNotFound

Finally, I regularly update my Cygwin; AFAIK: my release is quite recent.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW W01BBSAV 2.3.0(0.291/5/3) 2015-11-09 10:22 i686 Cygwin

Please let me know what I can do to provide further information &
details, e.g., STC -- Simple Test Case as normally requested by
Corinna.

Thanks,
Arpe

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