On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:16:20PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 19:48 schrieb Enrico Forestieri:
> > The Cygwin X-server has a -clipboard option that maps a selection in > > an X11 application to the Windows clipboard. > > Guess why this is an option and not compiled in? Because it does not only > have advantages. As I understand you that option is not even enabled by > default. I don't have a problem to implement this feature in a > configurable way, and I acknowledge that people like you and Abdel like > it, but I still don't think that it should be enabled by default. I don't have to guess. The option exists because the same functionality could be activated by an external program (xwinclip). The official cygwin script which launches the X-server has this option as a default. -- Enrico
