Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote in
<3FFD70AB.4080100@msu.edu>
in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Thu, 08 Jan 2004 10:00:59 -0500:
Øyvind Harboe wrote:
A good configuration option is no configuration option :-)
Is there any reason not to make -clipboard default for XWin once the
current round of changes are out of the door?
In the past xwinclip crashed intermittantly and it clobbered the clipboard, so -clipboard
not being default made sense.
I have already been thinking about it.
I'll eventually make -clipboard the default and add a -noclipboard
option to disable it.
That is what we have typically done for all features that newly reach
stabililty.
It could be argued that if the -query or -broadcast option is also
being used the default should remain -noclipboard.
Most (remote) display managers turn on X authentication and prevent
the internal clipboard client from connecting to its own Cygwin/X
server. This results in the client wasting its time doing it's
start-up retries. This isn't a huge waste - more a niggle.