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Re: Cygwin X causes system pauses
- From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum dot mit dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:55:46 -0600
- Subject: Re: Cygwin X causes system pauses
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:05 PM, I wrote:
> After some period of time, if I try to type something into an Outlook
> E-mail message, the text pauses (no echo), then after several/many
> seconds, it will appear (usually with the typos I didn't see). ?If I
> kill XWin.exe, then normal performance is restored. ?This problem is
> exacerbated (or happens sooner) if I'm doing a lot of cut/copy/paste
> in Emacs.
>
> A second problem is sometimes I copy text from a Windows app. then try
> to paste it into Emacs. ?Instead of the text showing up, I get an XWin
> hourglass and I'm pretty much hosed at this point (only the X system
> is hung, the rest of the PC is fine). ?Killing XWin.exe and restarting
> fixes this problem.
I have been running the test X-server 1.9.x and this XWin.exe since
September 30:
? ?XWin.20100923-git-2172af4d1ea713f1.exe
I have not had ANY of these problems since installing this server. ?I
guess all the clipboard work that CGF et. al. is doing is paying off!
- Jim
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