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Re: -clipboard fails, xwinclip works if delayed
- From: Biju G C <bijumaillist at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:13:34 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: -clipboard fails, xwinclip works if delayed
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
this is a know issue.
pl. see following mails
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-01/msg00157.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-01/msg00155.html
i got following links as the result of search at google
Search condition >> "xwinclip" site:cygwin.com
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/xwinclip/
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2003-01/msg00001.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2002-06/msg00006.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2002-12/msg00000.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2002-06/msg00009.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2002-06/msg00004.html
--- John dot Peters at csiro dot au wrote:
> Could someone please point out what I am missing?
>
> Cygwin/XFree works rock-solid for me as an x-terminal to a remote host.
>
> However I cannot get -clipboard to work; Xwinclip works fine, but only if
> I delay running it until I've logged in to the remote host and executed
> "xhost +<my-pc-addr>". If I start Xwinclip sooner, it says:
>
> Xlib: connection to "<my-pc-addr>" refused by server
> Could not open display, try: 1, sleeping:4
>
> It gets up to try 3 in about 10 seconds, then quits. Logging into the
> remote host takes up to a minute, after which xhost can be executed.
> Starting Xwinclip late enough that not all tries are used up works ok.
>
> Is there some setting I'm missing? Or does -clipboard include a similar
> timeout which could be extended?
>
> I've tried the telnet method described in the user guide, but it seems to
> have the same problem.
>
> xwin.bat script is:
> SET DISPLAY=<my-pc-addr>:0.0
> SET PATH=.;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%
> start /B XWin-Test79.exe -query <host-addr> -kb -clipboard -nowinkill
> -nodecoration -unixkill -from <my-pc-addr>
>
> setting DISPLAY to 127.0.0.1:0.0 doesn't help.
>
> The system is win2000 with a 1 GHz pentium.
> Extracting "clip" from the log gives:
> ----------------
> % cat XWinrl.log|grep -i clip
> winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitClipboard.
> winInitClipboard ()
> winClipboardProc - Hello
> winClipboardProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
> winClipboardProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
> winClipboardProc - Calling setlocale ()
> winClipboardProc - setlocale () returned
> winClipboardProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
> winClipboardProc - XInitThreads failed.
> ----------------
>
> Many thanks
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> John Peters
> CSIRO National Measurement Laboratory
> PO Box 218 Phone: +61 2 9413 7503
> Lindfield NSW 2070 Fax: +61 2 9413 7202
> Australia Email: John dot Peters at csiro dot au
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
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