On 2019-06-08 01:10, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 08.06.2019 um 02:52 schrieb Academy OfFetishes: >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 5:41 PM Doug Henderson wrote: >>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 11:33, Academy OfFetishes wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 12:41 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: >>>> I have the same problem with 3.0.0. >>>> Sorry for slowly dripping out information (I promise that's not my >>>> intent), but I will say, as soon as I created this user account on >>>> windows, I had copy and paste issues that were outside of cygwin. I >>>> recall copying text from firefox and not being able to paste it into >>>> windows explorer and vice versa (these are contrived examples. I can't >>>> remember what the exact problems were, but they were similar to this). >>>> It seemed very random, though. Like some copy/paste worked, and some >>>> did not. After running sfc /scannow and restarting twice, the problem >>>> seems to have gone away completely. >>>> I'm not sure if that's to this problem (except that it could point out >>>> a borked windows install). >>> I encountered strange clipboard problems as a result of fiddling with >>> the Clipboard Settings in Win10. >>> When I turned on "Sync across devices", after a "Copy to clipboard" >>> operation, sometimes the "Paste from clipboard" operation pasted >>> nothing or the previous clipboard content. A few moments later, >>> another "Paste" would paste the content of the most recent "Copy". It >>> seems as though the content of the clipboard was not updated after a >>> Copy operation until a Sync to cloud was performed, with the timing >>> being dependant on WiFi, internet and cloud speeds and latency. >>> I did not observe any difference in "Drag and Drop" behaviour with >>> this setting, but I almost exclusively use keyboard Copy and Paste >>> instead of mouse Drop and Drag. >> That's interesting. Well my sync settings already seems to be off, but >> when I was having issues, it was working just like you described. >> I'm not sure if I'm supposed to create a new Mintty issue or wait for >> Thomas to reply. > 1. Please note that this list has a no-top-posting policy. (Respond below the > text you're referring to.) > 2. Latest comments are suggesting this may not be a mintty issue. > 3. I can only reply if there is a clear question or issue presented. Even > though > I noticed the issue once myself, there is still no "reproducible test case".
The OP has a reproducible test case: file drag to cmd always works, file drag to mintty never works: fails on both 3.0.0 and 3.0.7; the rest of us have no problems: diagnosis opportunity! -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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
