On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Charles Packer wrote: > As a Unix veteran but first-time Cygwin user, I've discovered that I > can't paste selected text with the middle button under these > circumstances: I have logged into a remote Unix system and start some X
Wrong list. Please follow-up to <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com> (I've set the Reply-To: accordingly). > window from there -- an xterm, say, or xedit. I select text in one of > those windows (by dragging with the left button down) and then try to > paste somewhere else in the window. It will paste only if the selected > text is still highlighted. This is not right; it should have been copied > to some buffer that is still available to the middle button even if the > originally selected text is no longer highlighted. > > Oddly enough, the problem doesn't exist with the local Cygwin xterms and > xedit -- only with those that the remote system creates. For what it's > worth, the .xinitrc script that Cygwin uses in this installation runs > xwinclip and then wmaker. The invocation of twm has been commented out. > When I do a ps, I see that wmaker appears twice. > > Incidentally, occasionally the middle button does worse than merely not > paste; it kills the window. The error message showing in the main Cygwin > xterm is: BadAtom(invalid Atom parameter); Major opcode of failed > request: 18(X_Change Property). See <http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote> (please read the whole section). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
