Cygwin clipboard flaky on Windows 7

2014-10-31 Thread Chris Stenton
start working again. Thanks Chris Forwarded Message Subject:Cygwin clipboard flaky on Windows 7 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:28:14 +0100 From: Chris Stenton To: cygwin@cygwin.com After 4 years I've just upgrade to version :- CYGWIN_NT-6.1 mars 1.7.32(0.

Re: Cygwin clipboard flaky on Windows 7

2014-10-21 Thread Chris Stenton
On 21/10/2014 13:15, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 17/10/2014 12:28, Chris Stenton wrote: When X is first started and with one "windows notepad" open I can bi-directionally cut and paste between the MS and X windows world. However, it seems that if I have multiple MS windows open then I can't cut from

Re: Cygwin clipboard flaky on Windows 7

2014-10-21 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 17/10/2014 12:28, Chris Stenton wrote: When X is first started and with one "windows notepad" open I can bi-directionally cut and paste between the MS and X windows world. However, it seems that if I have multiple MS windows open then I can't cut from MS windows and paste into the X world. I

Re: Cygwin clipboard flaky on Windows 7

2014-10-17 Thread Doug Henderson
On 17 October 2014 09:05, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > I'll be more careful about clicking and post again if I can rule that out. > --Ken Nellis After a lot of grief with programs that either eat or ignore the click that focuses the window, and thus may or may not change the selection and insert point

RE: Cygwin clipboard flaky on Windows 7

2014-10-17 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
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

RE: Cygwin clipboard flaky on Windows 7

2014-10-17 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Chris Stenton > > After 4 years I've just upgrade to version :- > > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 mars 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:03 i686 Cygwin > > I use the following batch file :- > > run XWin :1 -clipboard -nodecoration -notrayicon -dpi 100 -query machine > -from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -once > > on m

Cygwin clipboard flaky on Windows 7

2014-10-17 Thread Chris Stenton
After 4 years I've just upgrade to version :- CYGWIN_NT-6.1 mars 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:03 i686 Cygwin I use the following batch file :- run XWin :1 -clipboard -nodecoration -notrayicon -dpi 100 -query machine -from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -once on my windows 7 machine. When X is first s