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Re: XWin causes Windows apps to hang(?)

From: Ed Avis <ed at membled dot com>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: 20 Feb 2004 19:27:14 +0000
Subject: Re: XWin causes Windows apps to hang(?)
References: <1074946000.18324.6.camel@famine> <l14qtwgpuu.fsf@budvar.future-i.net> <l14qtn1gwl.fsf@budvar.future-i.net> <4035245B.4090707@msu.edu>
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> writes:

[Windows app hangs when pasting to it from X]

>Yes, the OpenClipboard failure is probably causing your crash.  Try
>editing your startxwin.bat and removing the -clipboard parameter
>being passed to XWin.exe.

If I do that then I can run a separate xwinclip.exe.  If xwinclip gets
into a wedged state then it can be killed and restarted.

>There is likely a bug in XWin.exe's clipboard support that will need
>to be fixed.

Let me know if you would like me to do something to help reproduce or
track down this bug.

-- 
Ed Avis <ed@membled.com>

References:
- Re: XWin causes Windows apps to hang(?)
  - From: Ed Avis
- Re: XWin causes Windows apps to hang(?)
  - From: Ed Avis
- Re: XWin causes Windows apps to hang(?)
  - From: Harold L Hunt II

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