For what it's worth, this problem (where running xwinclip hangs Microsoft Office applications) appears to be solved in xwinclip-test06--it hasn't occurred in the week or so that I've been running it, and it occurred several times a day before that. It looks like it was actually solved in xwinclip-test04--see the mailing list postings below.
Original report by Francois: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-12/msg00043.html Report by Eric Peabody: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-06/msg00110.html Reported fixed by Eric: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-q2/msg01121.html I'm sure everybody involved knows this by now, I just wanted to pull together the reports from Francois (hang on MS Office doc open, which I was seeing) with those from Eric (slow IE launch from Outlook). - Bradey -----Original Message----- From: Francois Perrot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:47 AM To: Bradey Honsinger Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: app launch and xwinclip problem Hi Bradley, No response in the mailing list ? Simply because I didn't get any... by the way, I guess it's an xwinclip bug... and I just 'kill -1 xwinclip' to fix the problem, and I won't blame anyone for that... It's such a great thing to copy / paste between windows and xfree... and for that behavior, you just need to know it... and when lauching an app on windows and get the problem, just kill... (must say that murder has never been a solution for me anyway...) What about creating a kwinclip alias to kill xwinclip ? You'll just need to start xwinclip again... after... Hope this will help... Fran�ois ----- Original Message ----- From: Bradey Honsinger To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 2:19 AM Subject: app launch and xwinclip problem I've also got the problem with Windows applications freezing when xwinclip is running. I'm using XWin-Test53 and Cygwin 1.3.10, on Windows 2000 SP1 with Office 2000. Have you been able to figure out what's going on? I didn't see any response on the cygwin-xfree mailing list. - Bradey app launch and xwinclip problem From: "Fran�ois PERROT" <francois dot perrot at cgey dot com> To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:39:05 +0100 Subject: app launch and xwinclip problem Hi all, I have some problems when I try to open Microsoft office files by double-click. When I do so, the app is not launched and the machine freezes with 100 % cpu time used. When I kill -1 xwinclip, the app starts normally. I first thought this was a Microsoft office files openning problem only but I also have some xwinclip related problems with the windows time / date properties panel, and with windows explorer when it's launched by right-clicking on the start button. For those two last exemples the symptoms are different as the app is correctly launched but hangs until I kill xwinclip (kill -1 works) The behaviour of xwinclip is : "OpenClipboard () failed" message and xwinclip goes on working well, same message but I can paste on windows environment (and it works on xfree/KDE), or xwinclip is no longer running at all. I'm using Xwin-test53, cygwin version is 1.3.3, KDE 1.2 beta (but I had the same problems with twm, mwm and icewm) and xwinclip test 03. My win environment is NT 4 sp 6 with 96 Mo. I've searched the mailing-lists archives and didn't find any equivalent problem, witch I find weird : many office users and only one with what should be a common problem. Hey who put a spell on my machine ?!!
