On 04/12/2013 08:09, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Am 2013-12-03 22:10, schrieb Christopher Faylor: >> I added an ugly hack to work around this symptom in the latest cygwin. >> It shouldn't have any big impact on anything but this particular >> scenario but I would appreciate it if people downloaded today's snapshot >> and verified that things are still working ok. >> >> I plan on addressing the actual problem for Cygwin 1.7.28. > > the nightly snapshot does not seem to do me any good with regard to the > clipboard problem. I performed the following test, and I hope this is what you > had in mind:
There is also a bug in xwinclip which needs fixing for this test to work reliably, but it was difficult to see what that was without this fix in the cygwin DLL. > - make sure all Cygwin processes have terminated > - rename /bin/cygwin1.dll to /bin/cygwin1.dll.backup > - copy the nightly snapshot of 2013-12-04 to /bin and rename it cygwin1.dll > - rename /bin/XWin.exe (the test version mentioned by Jon) to > /bin/XWin.exe.test > - rename /bin/XWin.exe.backup (the stock version that came with my last > update) to /bin/XWin.exe > > A quick test shows that trying to copy approx. two printed pages worth of > ASCII text from an Emacs buffer to LibreOffice Writer still triggers the > clipboard failure. > > If I revert the changes above, i.e. reactivate the stock cygwin1.dll (1.7.25) > and Jon's XWin test version, the clipboard works again. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
