On 03/02/2012 22:55, Bennett, Tony wrote: > Often when "cutting" from Xwin and attempting to "Paste" to a WindowsXP > application, > the "most recent" "cut" is not pasted... but instead a "previous" Xwin "cut". > > In other words, this scenario: > > LOCATION ACT Comment > Xwin Cut "abc" > WinXP Paste correctly pastes "abc" > Xwin Cut "def" > WinXP Paste Incorrectly pastes "abc" > > When the above problem occurs, no matter how many times a "cut" from Xwin, > Whenever I paste on WinXP it pastes "abc". > > I can "correct" the problem by "cutting" from WinXP and pasting into Xwin... > ...after doing this the next Xwin "cut" will "correctly" paste on WinXP.
Yes, this is a rather long-standing problem (see the bug report at [1] for some of the technical details), which is unfortunately not easy to fix in a way that works well for all cases. Fortunately, there is a simple workaround for the moment: If you install and run xclipboard, that will cause XWin to notice every change of the clipboard contents. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5735 -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
