From: Nellis, Kenneth > This is interesting because just yesterday I was extensively copying and > pasting from a pair of Notepad windows into my Mintty/bash session using > getclip, and occasionally it would just paste in a single garbage > character. So, this is different from the OP in that X is not involved. > > After seeing this post, I tried for nearly a half hour trying to discern a > repeatable pattern to exhibit this behavior, but failed. > Don't want to inject red herrings here, but I've only noticed this with > two Notepad windows open and copying alternately from either. > Also, it seems that selecting new notepad text, but neglecting to > Ctrl+C may be somehow involved. Again, I've tried many combinations of > this and have not been able to discern any pattern of when failure occurs. > > This one non-repeatable failure may be illustrative. Consider two Notepad > windows open, A and B, and a mintty/bash shell window open. > The following steps produced failure: > > Select text from A, Ctrl-C, getclip (worked), select text from B, Ctrl-C, > getclip (worked), click somewhere in A to deselect text, click somewhere > in B to deselect text, getclip (failed!).
I have a new theory on this, which may as well apply to the OP as well: PEBCAK. After selecting text in Notepad and Ctrl-C copying, then clicking in the mintty window to refocus the keyboard to run getclip, perhaps slopping clicking caused Mintty's auto-copy-on-select feature to maybe capture an accidental single-character selection, thus wiping out what was copied from Notepad. I'll be more careful about clicking and post again if I can rule that out. --Ken Nellis
