Re: Copy/paste broken from X to Windows
On 21/10/2013 05:45, Matt D. wrote: Copy/paste seems to be broken when attempting to copy a large block of text from X to Windows. See the attachment for an example. Copying the text from Windows to X seems fine but the reverse causes the mouse cursor to spin and then a blank string to paste. Thanks for the bug report and reproduction steps. I can reproduce this problem, and there's definitely a timing sensitive bug here (which a larger paste seems to trigger). There is also perhaps something not quite right about the way select() is behaving here, as it seems to be returning 0 before the timeout expires, which I need to investigate further. I've uploaded a snapshot at [1] with a fix and a workaround. Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you? [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20131121-git-49551bf34e231173.exe.bz2 -- 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/
Copy/paste broken from X to Windows
Copy/paste seems to be broken when attempting to copy a large block of text from X to Windows. See the attachment for an example. Copying the text from Windows to X seems fine but the reverse causes the mouse cursor to spin and then a blank string to paste. Matt D. ACT III SCENE I. A public place. Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, Page, and Servants BENVOLIO I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire: The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl; For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. MERCUTIO Thou art like one of those fellows that when he enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword upon the table and says 'God send me no need of thee!' and by the operation of the second cup draws it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need. BENVOLIO Am I like such a fellow? MERCUTIO Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as soon moody to be moved. BENVOLIO And what to? MERCUTIO Nay, an there were two such, we should have none shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes: what eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as fun of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun: didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter? with another, for tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou wilt tutor me from quarrelling! BENVOLIO An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. MERCUTIO The fee-simple! O simple! BENVOLIO By my head, here come the Capulets. MERCUTIO By my heel, I care not. Enter TYBALT and others TYBALT Follow me close, for I will speak to them. Gentlemen, good den: a word with one of you. MERCUTIO And but one word with one of us? couple it with something; make it a word and a blow. TYBALT You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you will give me occasion. MERCUTIO Could you not take some occasion without giving? TYBALT Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo,-- MERCUTIO Consort! what, dost thou make us minstrels? an thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords: here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall make you dance. 'Zounds, consort! BENVOLIO We talk here in the public haunt of men: Either withdraw unto some private place, And reason coldly of your grievances, Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us. MERCUTIO Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze; I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I. Enter ROMEO TYBALT Well, peace be with you, sir: here comes my man. MERCUTIO But I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery: Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower; Your worship in that sense may call him 'man.' TYBALT Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford No better term than this,--thou art a villain. ROMEO Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage To such a greeting: villain am I none; Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not. TYBALT Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw. ROMEO I do protest, I never injured thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise, Till thou shalt know the reason of my love: And so, good Capulet,--which name I tender As dearly as my own,--be satisfied. MERCUTIO O calm, dishonourable, vile submission! Alla stoccata carries it away. Draws Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk? TYBALT What wouldst thou have with me? MERCUTIO Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out. TYBALT I am for you. Drawing ROMEO Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up. MERCUTIO Come, sir, your passado. They fight ROMEO Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons. Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage! Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath Forbidden bandying in Verona streets: Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio! TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followers MERCUTIO I am hurt. A plague o' both your houses! I am sped. Is he gone, and hath nothing? BENVOLIO What, art thou hurt? MERCUTIO Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough. Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ
Re: Copy/paste broken from X to Windows
On 10/21/2013 12:45 AM, Matt D. wrote: Copy/paste seems to be broken when attempting to copy a large block of text from X to Windows. See the attachment for an example. Copying the text from Windows to X seems fine but the reverse causes the mouse cursor to spin and then a blank string to paste. Please send this report to the cygwin-xfree list. -- Larry _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/
Re: Copy/paste broken from X to Windows
Larry, This is the cygwin-xfree list? Matt D. On 10/21/2013 1:05 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote: On 10/21/2013 12:45 AM, Matt D. wrote: Copy/paste seems to be broken when attempting to copy a large block of text from X to Windows. See the attachment for an example. Copying the text from Windows to X seems fine but the reverse causes the mouse cursor to spin and then a blank string to paste. Please send this report to the cygwin-xfree list. -- 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/
Re: Copy/paste broken from X to Windows
On 10/21/2013 6:40 PM, Matt D. wrote: Larry, This is the cygwin-xfree list? Right. My apologies. -- Larry _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/
How do I copy/paste in Xwin Server?
I'm using Xwin Server on Windows 7, and I can't seem to figure out how to copy/paste text within the Xwin terminal. How can this be done? Thanks! -- 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/
Re: How do I copy/paste in Xwin Server?
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Ocean wrote: I'm using Xwin Server on Windows 7, and I can't seem to figure out how to copy/paste text within the Xwin terminal. How can this be done? man xterm would have told you that Pointer button two (usually middle) types (pastes) the text from the PRIMARY selection, if any, otherwise from the cut buffer, inserting it as keyboard input. Also, a web search for xterm paste might have helped. HTH, Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. -- Linus Torvalds People disagree with me. I just ignore them. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/
Re: Issues with Copy Paste
How are you copying? Which application are you copying from? (Shell/vim etc...) On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Ajay Jain ajay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The copy and paste from Xterm (using Cygwin) to my local machine is playing a hide and seek. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it does not. Can somebody please give me checklist on what to enable in default so that copy paste works between xterms and any local windows application. Many thanks in advance, Ajay. -- 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/ -- Regards, -- 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/
Issues with Copy Paste
Hi, The copy and paste from Xterm (using Cygwin) to my local machine is playing a hide and seek. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it does not. Can somebody please give me checklist on what to enable in default so that copy paste works between xterms and any local windows application. Many thanks in advance, Ajay. -- 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/
1.7.1: xterm osc 52 copy/paste bug?
Hi! I just have installed 1.7.1 release and try xterm osc 52 copy/paste escape sequences - they have work in the beta release. The paste seq: echo -ne \033]52;;?\033\\ works justr fine, but copy seq: echo -ne \033]52;;cXdlcnR5\033\\ didn't works (cXdlcnR5 is base64 encodig for qwerty). Any suggestions? It seems like or xterm bug, or I missing something in the configuration. Thank you dmitry -- 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/
Re: update - Vista: no copy/paste X - MS
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Marc Girod wrote: Dick Repasky-2 wrote: not being able to copy from an X application (xterm or nedit) and paste into Windows Notepad. For what it's worth, and notwithstanding the need for deeper analysis and a fix, I can report that, disabling the Office clipboard (e.g. from Outlook), copypaste work for me from emacs run on X to the Windows Notepad, on Vista. Marc On my system toggling the Office clipboard toggles the ability to copy from X and paste into Windows Notepad when Notepad is launced before X. If I launch X and then Windows Notepad I cannot copy from X and paste into Notepad independently of whether Office clipboard is on or off. If I launch Windows Notepad before launching X, I can copy from X and paste into Notepad when Office clipboard is off. I cannot copy and paste when Office clipboard is on. I'm running Office 2007, I have been using Excel to toggle the Windows clipboard. Dick Dick Repasky Center for Computational Cytomics UITS Cubicle 101.08 Indiana University USA rrepa...@indiana.edu -- 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/
Re: update - Vista: no copy/paste X - MS
Dick wrote: On my system toggling the Office clipboard toggles the ability to copy from X and paste into Windows Notepad when Notepad is launched before X. ... I'm running Office 2007, I have been using Excel to toggle the Windows clipboard. I have not noticed any difference related to the order of launching. Usually, I launch X first. Not always though: I may have to start Outlook or IE first... But I am using older versions of the Office tools than you. My Outlook says: 11.8206.8202 SP3, Copyright 1995-2003... Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/update---Vista%3A-no-copy-paste-X--%3E-MS-tp22164522p22205981.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/
Re: update - Vista: no copy/paste X - MS
Dick Repasky-2 wrote: not being able to copy from an X application (xterm or nedit) and paste into Windows Notepad. For what it's worth, and notwithstanding the need for deeper analysis and a fix, I can report that, disabling the Office clipboard (e.g. from Outlook), copypaste work for me from emacs run on X to the Windows Notepad, on Vista. Marc Windows Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!) Ver 6.0 Build 6000 ... Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.5.25 DLL epoch: 19 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/update---Vista%3A-no-copy-paste-X--%3E-MS-tp22164522p22181085.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/
update - Vista: no copy/paste X - MS
On 30 Jan I posted a note about not being able to copy from an X application (xterm or nedit) and paste into Windows Notepad. I also reported that the problem occurred on Vista but not XP. I thought that I'd try again with the recently posted X update that has clipboard debugging turned on. I found that the bug appears when Windows Notepad is launched after X has been launched. Copy and paste from X to Windows Notepad works fine when Windows Notepad is launched before X has been launched. This is true on both Windows Vista and Windows XP. (My earlier report was incorrect in that regard.) There was no difference between XWin.0.log when copy and paste worked and when it did not work. Attached is a copy of XWin.0.log and Cygcheck.out. Dick - Dick Repasky Center for Computational Cytomics UITS Cubicle 101.08 Indiana University USA rrepa...@indiana.edu Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Mon Feb 23 11:07:40 2009 Windows Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!) Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin c:\Windows\system32 c:\Windows c:\Windows\System32\Wbem Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec) UID: 1000(rrepasky) GID: 513(None) 513(None) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec) UID: 1000(rrepasky) GID: 513(None) 513(None) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) SysDir: C:\Windows\system32 WinDir: C:\Windows USER = 'rrepasky' PWD = '/home/rrepasky' HOME = '/home/rrepasky' MAKE_MODE = 'unix' HOMEPATH = '\Users\rrepasky' MANPATH = '/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man::/usr/ssl/man' APPDATA = 'C:\Users\rrepasky\AppData\Roaming' HOSTNAME = 'rrepasky-PC' TERM = 'cygwin' PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = 'x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 8, GenuineIntel' WINDIR = 'C:\Windows' PUBLIC = 'C:\Users\Public' OLDPWD = '/usr/bin' PROGRAMDATA = 'C:\ProgramData' USERDOMAIN = 'rrepasky-PC' OS = 'Windows_NT' ALLUSERSPROFILE = 'C:\ProgramData' !:: = '::\' TEMP = '/cygdrive/c/Users/rrepasky/AppData/Local/Temp' COMMONPROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files' USERNAME = 'rrepasky' PROCESSOR_LEVEL = '6' FP_NO_HOST_CHECK = 'NO' SYSTEMDRIVE = 'C:' USERPROFILE = 'C:\Users\rrepasky' PS1 = '\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\...@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ ' LOGONSERVER = '\\RREPASKY-PC' PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = 'x86' LOCALAPPDATA = 'C:\Users\rrepasky\AppData\Local' !C: = 'C:\cygwin\bin' SHLVL = '1' PATHEXT = '.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC' HOMEDRIVE = 'C:' PROMPT = '$P$G' COMSPEC = 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe' TMP = '/cygdrive/c/Users/rrepasky/AppData/Local/Temp' SYSTEMROOT = 'C:\Windows' PRINTER = 'hrothgar' CVS_RSH = '/bin/ssh' PROCESSOR_REVISION = '0f08' INFOPATH = '/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info:' PROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files' NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = '1' SESSIONNAME = 'Console' COMPUTERNAME = 'RREPASKY-PC' _ = '/usr/bin/cygcheck' HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 (default) = '/cygdrive' cygdrive flags = 0x0022 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/ (default) = 'C:\cygwin' flags = 0x000a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin (default) = 'C:\cygwin/bin' flags = 0x000a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib (default) = 'C:\cygwin/lib' flags = 0x000a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 (default) = '/cygdrive' cygdrive flags = 0x0022 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/ (default) = 'C:\cygwin' flags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin (default) = 'C:\cygwin/bin' flags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib (default) = 'C:\cygwin/lib' flags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options a: fd N/AN/A c: hd NTFS 20477Mb 86% CP CS UN PA FC d: cd N/AN/A
Vista: no copy/paste X - MS
Running Cygwin 1.5 on Vista I cannot copy from an X window (xterm) and paste into a Windows app (notepad). I use the left mouse button to select in the xterm and Edit-Paste in notepad. Copying from note pad and pasting into either an xterm or into nedit works just fine. (And, on Windows XP, I can copy and paste in both directions just fine.) Thought you might want to know. Cygcheck.out is attached. Dick --- Dick Repasky Center for Computational Cytomics UITS Cubicle 101.08 Indiana University USA rrepa...@indiana.edu Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Jan 30 13:41:01 2009 Windows Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!) Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin c:\Windows\system32 c:\Windows c:\Windows\System32\Wbem Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec) UID: 1000(me) GID: 513(None) 513(None) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec) UID: 1000(me) GID: 513(None) 513(None) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) SysDir: C:\Windows\system32 WinDir: C:\Windows USER = 'me' PWD = '/home/me' HOME = '/home/me' MAKE_MODE = 'unix' HOMEPATH = '\Users\me' MANPATH = '/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man::/usr/ssl/man' APPDATA = 'C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming' HOSTNAME = 'me-PC' TERM = 'cygwin' PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = 'x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 8, GenuineIntel' WINDIR = 'C:\Windows' PUBLIC = 'C:\Users\Public' OLDPWD = '/usr/bin' PROGRAMDATA = 'C:\ProgramData' USERDOMAIN = 'me-PC' OS = 'Windows_NT' ALLUSERSPROFILE = 'C:\ProgramData' !:: = '::\' TEMP = '/cygdrive/c/Users/me/AppData/Local/Temp' COMMONPROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files' USERNAME = 'me' PROCESSOR_LEVEL = '6' FP_NO_HOST_CHECK = 'NO' SYSTEMDRIVE = 'C:' USERPROFILE = 'C:\Users\me' PS1 = '\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\...@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ ' LOGONSERVER = '\\RREPASKY-PC' PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = 'x86' LOCALAPPDATA = 'C:\Users\me\AppData\Local' !C: = 'C:\cygwin\bin' SHLVL = '1' PATHEXT = '.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC' HOMEDRIVE = 'C:' PROMPT = '$P$G' COMSPEC = 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe' TMP = '/cygdrive/c/Users/me/AppData/Local/Temp' SYSTEMROOT = 'C:\Windows' PRINTER = 'hrothgar' CVS_RSH = '/bin/ssh' PROCESSOR_REVISION = '0f08' INFOPATH = '/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info:' PROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files' NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = '1' SESSIONNAME = 'Console' COMPUTERNAME = 'RREPASKY-PC' _ = '/usr/bin/cygcheck' HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 (default) = '/cygdrive' cygdrive flags = 0x0022 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/ (default) = 'C:\cygwin' flags = 0x000a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin (default) = 'C:\cygwin/bin' flags = 0x000a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib (default) = 'C:\cygwin/lib' flags = 0x000a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 (default) = '/cygdrive' cygdrive flags = 0x0022 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/ (default) = 'C:\cygwin' flags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin (default) = 'C:\cygwin/bin' flags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib (default) = 'C:\cygwin/lib' flags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options a: fd N/AN/A c: hd NTFS 20477Mb 85% CP CS UN PA FC d: cd N/AN/A C:\cygwin / system binmode C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode . /cygdrive system binmode,cygdrive Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe Not Found: crontab Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found:
New install copy/paste woes
Cygwin/X copy/paste woes Yesterday I downloaded and installed Cywin: Dell XPS M1710 Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 mike-lap 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin X is started with cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/startwin.bat copy/paste between local and remote xterm windows doesn't work copy/paste from remote xterm windows to local Windows apps (via clipboard) causes the By local xterm windows I mean xterms started on the local (on my laptop) cygwin system using the local display. By remote xterm windows I mean xterms started by ssh'ing into a remote system (AIX and Linux) with ForwardX11 yes in /etc/ssh_config, and then starting an xterm session on that remote system. The remote xterm uses the local display. Problems: WORKS: select/paste between two local xterm windows select from xterm local xterm and paste into local Windows app select/copy from local windows app and paste into local xterm select/paste within a single remote xterm DOESN'T WORK: select/paste (in either direction) betwen a local and remote xterm (nothing happens) select from remote xterm and paste into local windows app. This clobbers the remote xterm What happens: I highlight text in the remote xterm, click in the windows app, right click, click Paste. When I click Paste the remote xterm disappears, both from my display and from the windows task bar! I've been successfully using the functionality I describe and for a long time and the problems only began with new hardware software. On my old laptop (Thinkpad A31p) and an older version of Cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Dalea 1.5.8(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-16 00:19 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin) all of the DOESN'T WORK stuff above worked fine. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thanks. -Mike -- 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/
copy+paste large amount of text -- workaround
One of my users at work had problems when copy+pasting large amounts of text from cygwin's Xfree86 into Windows. In particular, he get the following error: winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - X*TextPropertyToTextList returned: XConverterNotFound. I upgraded his cygwin packages to the latest packages, which helped get rid of this error, but didn't allow the copy+pasting to work. Looking online, this is a known bug: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00416.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00417.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00065.html I've found a workaround: run xclipboard. For whatever reason, with xclipboard running in background, copy+paste large amounts of text works fine. [I'm not normally subscribed to this list, but figured I should give back.] - Morty -- 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/
Re: X Copy/Paste ?
Roy Wiseman wrote: A quick question, and I have a feeling this is asked regularly, but I couldn't find an answer on searching the forum. How can I copy/paste to/from xterm to another xterm windows and also how can I copy/paste to/from an xterm window and a windows application like say notepad ? Since this is a X11-related question it really belongs on the cygwin-xfree (at) cygwin.com mailing list, where I've CC:d it. The X11 clipboard and windows clipboard are integrated. You don't have to do anything special to copy/paste between them. In rxvt and xterm, selecting text with the mouse also selects it, so you can just Ctrl-V in Notepad. To paste in rxvt / xterm you normally use the middle mouse button (which can sometimes be emulated on 2 button mice by pressing both at the same time) or by pressing Shift-Insert. You can find more details in the manpages. Brian -- 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/
RE: Mouse button copy/paste not working
Charles Packer wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote (please read the whole section). Igor Typical Unix-head response (Read the whole book...). There is nothing in the FAQ that deals with this problem. However, perusing the Cygwin/X installation instructions, under the section on logging on to remote clients, I noticed the suggested ssh command: ssh -Y -l username hostdomain. I checked to see what our PC guy had set me up with under the alias he had given me: ssh -X -l myname $1. Changing -X to -Y made all the difference and solved the problem. Returning to the FAQ, there is a question X forwarding does not work does not work with OpenSSH under Cygwin in which the answer I needed is embedded as an afterthought. Suggestion: Add to the FAQ a question specifically mentioning the symptoms I described. What browser are you using -- when i clicked on the link provided, my browser opened up with the following at the top of the browser page(i.e. my browser opened with the page scrolled to the correct location): 5. Remote connections 5.1. X11Forwarding does not work with OpenSSH under Cygwin A1: OpenSSH 3.8 enables untrusted X11 forwarding by default when connecting to an ssh server that supports untrusted X11Forwarding. Most ssh servers for GNU/Linux are versions of OpenSSH that do support untrusted X11Forwarding, so using OpenSSH 3.8 from Cygwin will result in a connection that uses untrusted X11Forwarding by default. You will quickly notice that this is the case if most of your X applications are now killed when you try to copy and paste or if xdpyinfo returns only a fraction of the supported extensions that it does if run locally. It is easiest to just override untrusted X11Forwarding by passing -Y to ssh in place of -X. The -Y does the same thing as -X, but it enables trusted X11Forwarding for the current connection. Which is exactly the answer you were looking for reid
RE: Mouse button copy/paste not working
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: What browser are you using -- when i clicked on the link provided, my browser opened up with the following at the top of the browser page(i.e. my browser opened with the page scrolled to the correct location): [SNIP] Which is exactly the answer you were looking for Actually the -Y parameter is mentioned at least two times. First in the cited passage on top, second (with error message) in the passage about the client config files. Anyway, now there is a new FAQ entry with parts of the error message in the question. Actually the FAQ needs some cleanup. There are a lot of old entries which should be moved to a section Removed entries too separate them from the active ones but to keep the links and references working. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
RE: Mouse button copy/paste not working
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Actually the FAQ needs some cleanup. There are a lot of old entries which should be moved to a section Removed entries too separate them from the active ones but to keep the links and references working. Alexander, if you're cleaning up the FAQ anyway, you might want to coordinate with Joshua on the Cygwin-friendly firewalls question (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00926.html). Just a heads-up. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Mouse button copy/paste not working
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Charles Packer wrote: As a Unix veteran but first-time Cygwin user, I've discovered that I can't paste selected text with the middle button under these circumstances: I have logged into a remote Unix system and start some X Wrong list. Please follow-up to cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com (I've set the Reply-To: accordingly). window from there -- an xterm, say, or xedit. I select text in one of those windows (by dragging with the left button down) and then try to paste somewhere else in the window. It will paste only if the selected text is still highlighted. This is not right; it should have been copied to some buffer that is still available to the middle button even if the originally selected text is no longer highlighted. Oddly enough, the problem doesn't exist with the local Cygwin xterms and xedit -- only with those that the remote system creates. For what it's worth, the .xinitrc script that Cygwin uses in this installation runs xwinclip and then wmaker. The invocation of twm has been commented out. When I do a ps, I see that wmaker appears twice. Incidentally, occasionally the middle button does worse than merely not paste; it kills the window. The error message showing in the main Cygwin xterm is: BadAtom(invalid Atom parameter); Major opcode of failed request: 18(X_Change Property). See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote (please read the whole section). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Mouse button copy/paste not working
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote (please read the whole section). Igor Typical Unix-head response (Read the whole book...). There is nothing in the FAQ that deals with this problem. However, perusing the Cygwin/X installation instructions, under the section on logging on to remote clients, I noticed the suggested ssh command: ssh -Y -l username hostdomain. I checked to see what our PC guy had set me up with under the alias he had given me: ssh -X -l myname $1. Changing -X to -Y made all the difference and solved the problem. Returning to the FAQ, there is a question X forwarding does not work does not work with OpenSSH under Cygwin in which the answer I needed is embedded as an afterthought. Suggestion: Add to the FAQ a question specifically mentioning the symptoms I described.
Re: Mouse button copy/paste not working
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Charles Packer wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote (please read the whole section). Igor Typical Unix-head response (Read the whole book...). I initially wrote please read the whole section 5 (which is only one printed page long, BTW), but then omitted the section number because I thought it was self-evident. Apparently not. There is nothing in the FAQ that deals with this problem. However, perusing the Cygwin/X installation instructions, under the section on logging on to remote clients, I noticed the suggested ssh command: ssh -Y -l username hostdomain. I checked to see what our PC guy had set me up with under the alias he had given me: ssh -X -l myname $1. Changing -X to -Y made all the difference and solved the problem. Returning to the FAQ, there is a question X forwarding does not work does not work with OpenSSH under Cygwin That is the exact question I pointed you to. in which the answer I needed is embedded as an afterthought. Suggestion: Add to the FAQ a question specifically mentioning the symptoms I described. The symptoms are there (i.e., the BadAtom message). True, they are not in the form of a question -- the FAQ maintainer reads this list and I'm sure will see your suggestion. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
can´t copy/paste beetwen cygwin and admintool
Hi: I can´t copy/paste beetwen cygwin and aplications like admintool, however I can copy/paste beetwen cygwin and tipical windows application like word,netscape I have added the line \e[2~: paste-from-clipboard into .inputrc to be able to use the insert key, but it doesn´t work neither How can copy/paste beetwen cygwin and applications like admintool? Thanks for your time.
Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 03:00:42PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Keith Thompson wrote: It looks like the problem has to do with the new OpenSSH package. I tried logging into my Solaris box using SecureCRT, a Windows SSH client, and then starting up an xterm from there; cut-and-paste worked correctly. Now I've re-upgraded all the XFree86 packages and downgraded OpenSSH to OpenSSH_3.7.1p2, and cut-and-paste still works correctly. It looks like there's a problem with X forwarding in the new OpenSSH package. From the new OpenSSH-3.8p1-1 announcement: * ssh(1) now uses untrusted cookies for X11-Forwarding. Some X11 applications might need full access to the X11 server, see ForwardX11Trusted in ssh(1) and xauth(1) for more information. Thanks. Adding ForwardX11Trusted yes to my $HOME/.ssh/config did the trick. (Oddly, I never saw the problem on my Windows 2000 system, only on Windows XP.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ghoti.net/~kst San Diego Supercomputer Center * http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst Schroedinger does Shakespeare: To be *and* not to be
Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
Keith and Igor, thanks for this thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-02/msg00288.html. The reasoning is still beyond my ken, mostly because I haven't yet digested the right set of man pages. Nonetheless, it solved my problem, as described in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-02/msg00262.html, which was my just dessert for wielding Cygwin setup.exe so freely. (I'm not on the cygwin-xfree list anymore, hence the links instead of a simpler 'reply'.) Incidentally, should I be seeing Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. when using ssh and X-forwarding (now with ForwardX11Trusted = yes)? It looks like I have cookies in the right place. xauth report the same ones on both the local and remote machine. Though, I have gnawing concerns about the host part of the display name in those cookies; the (alphabetic) cases do not match. Hum. I should try to share cookies again (xauth extract, scp, xauth merge). Ultimately, the above message is only unaesthetic; I haven't noticed that it impacts performance. Thanks and regards, Vince Virgilio This email and any files transmitted with it are proprietary and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of ITT Industries, Inc. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. ITT Industries accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.
RE: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
That solved my problem as well. Thanks. -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Keith Thompson Subject: Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom. On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Keith Thompson wrote: It looks like the problem has to do with the new OpenSSH package. I tried logging into my Solaris box using SecureCRT, a Windows SSH client, and then starting up an xterm from there; cut-and-paste worked correctly. Now I've re-upgraded all the XFree86 packages and downgraded OpenSSH to OpenSSH_3.7.1p2, and cut-and-paste still works correctly. It looks like there's a problem with X forwarding in the new OpenSSH package. From the new OpenSSH-3.8p1-1 announcement: * ssh(1) now uses untrusted cookies for X11-Forwarding. Some X11 applications might need full access to the X11 server, see ForwardX11Trusted in ssh(1) and xauth(1) for more information. Haven't looked further... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
Virgilio, Vincent wrote: when using ssh and X-forwarding (now with ForwardX11Trusted = yes)? It looks like I have cookies in the right place. xauth report the same ones on both the local and remote machine. Though, I have gnawing concerns about the host part of the display name in those cookies; the (alphabetic) cases do not match. Hum. I should try to share cookies again (xauth extract, scp, xauth merge). It is an issue how the xserver handles untrusted clients. Until openssh 3.8 all clients forwarded by ssh were trusted by default. Now they are untrusted by default. I have no complete overview what the X11 Security Extension works and which functions are prohibited but I'll take a look and try to match this with the described error pattern. Stay tuned. ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
Alexander, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Virgilio, Vincent wrote: when using ssh and X-forwarding (now with ForwardX11Trusted = yes)? It looks like I have cookies in the right place. xauth report the same ones on both the local and remote machine. Though, I have gnawing concerns about the host part of the display name in those cookies; the (alphabetic) cases do not match. Hum. I should try to share cookies again (xauth extract, scp, xauth merge). It is an issue how the xserver handles untrusted clients. Until openssh 3.8 all clients forwarded by ssh were trusted by default. Now they are untrusted by default. Wow, good thing I haven't commented on this yet. I upgraded to OpenSSH 3.8 when it came out and since then have noticed that all of my ssh connections (even those done by cvs) were enabling X11 forwarding by default. I thought this was interesting, particularly since it wasn't mentioned in the release notes. I was just about to describe how this change was made in OpenSSH 3.8 and how I am really smart because I am the only one that noticed it... then I realized: 1) My ssh_config is modified to enable X11Forwarding (I don't have to use -X, but I always do because I had forgotten that I changed this default). 2) I had installed SFU 3.5 at about the same time that I upgraded to OpenSSH 3.8. Turns out that SFU 3.5 adds DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 to the global environment variables. The combination of these two meant that ssh was acting as if it was getting passed a -X and it had a valid DISPLAY value at all times, so it was enabling X11 forwarding at all times. I was wondering if this change in behavior meant that our multi-window window manager would be unable to connect to the server when an ssh session had been opened on the local machine already. I did some testing but was not able to cause this to happen. In any case, my great ideas for what was causing this problem are useless :) Harold
Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
Harold L Hunt II wrote: I was wondering if this change in behavior meant that our multi-window window manager would be unable to connect to the server when an ssh session had been opened on the local machine already. I did some testing but was not able to cause this to happen. In any case, my great ideas for what was causing this problem are useless :) More explanation i got from http://www.xfree86.org/~herrb/security.pdf Any normal xclient connects in trusted mode. But openssh now connects in untrusted mode. This is for security reasons. I'll describe later why I think it's useless. In untrusted mode some calls (esp. GetProperty and SetProperty) will fail. This can be configured in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy. quote source=SecurityPolicy # Allow reading of application resources, but not writing. property RESOURCE_MANAGER rootar iw property SCREEN_RESOURCES rootar iw # Ignore attempts to use cut buffers. Giving errors causes apps to crash, # and allowing access may give away too much information. property CUT_BUFFER0rootirw property CUT_BUFFER1rootirw /quote The CUT_BUFFER entries may explain why the problems with copypaste started. One way to solve the new problems is to modify the SecurityPolicy and distribute it with the xserver. But this is complicated because a) we have to figure out all properties which are safe to export b) we may get responsible and sued for any security problem we create with these changes. The other way is to enable X11ForwardTrusted by default. But again it is (in my opinion) dangerous to explicitly disable a security method. But anyway. I think the change to untrusted clients is very shortminded. Most users will get annoyed with not working software and skip the whole X11Forwarding issue and use xhost + again. This is a severe loss of security. If a lot of software requires access to properties which are blocked in untrusted mode then most people will enable the switch. Only a few will ever want the clients to connect in untrusted mode. bye ago NP: grauzone.04-02-15 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Keith Thompson wrote: It looks like the problem has to do with the new OpenSSH package. I tried logging into my Solaris box using SecureCRT, a Windows SSH client, and then starting up an xterm from there; cut-and-paste worked correctly. Now I've re-upgraded all the XFree86 packages and downgraded OpenSSH to OpenSSH_3.7.1p2, and cut-and-paste still works correctly. It looks like there's a problem with X forwarding in the new OpenSSH package. From the new OpenSSH-3.8p1-1 announcement: * ssh(1) now uses untrusted cookies for X11-Forwarding. Some X11 applications might need full access to the X11 server, see ForwardX11Trusted in ssh(1) and xauth(1) for more information. Haven't looked further... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
It looks like the problem has to do with the new OpenSSH package. I tried logging into my Solaris box using SecureCRT, a Windows SSH client, and then starting up an xterm from there; cut-and-paste worked correctly. Now I've re-upgraded all the XFree86 packages and downgraded OpenSSH to OpenSSH_3.7.1p2, and cut-and-paste still works correctly. It looks like there's a problem with X forwarding in the new OpenSSH package. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ghoti.net/~kst San Diego Supercomputer Center * http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst Schroedinger does Shakespeare: To be *and* not to be
Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
Virgilio, Vincent Vincent dot Virgilio at itt dot com writes: I just updated to XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 from -46, and now have two problems: 1. Clipboard integration is weakened in both 'twm' and multiwindow. I can copy/paste between X indows, but not between X and Windows (!). 2. Tk/tcl widgets fail. I run one remotely for local display, and then see in the remote window: X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) Atom id in failed request: 0x114 Serial number of failed request: 370 Current serial number in output stream: 372 (I had to type that in by hand because of problem #1) I'm not complaining: cygwin-xfree86 is still a great product. I thought this report might be helpful to the developers, if it's not just me. It's not just you, and it's not the server. I'm running Cygwin under Windows XP on an IBM Thinkpad T40. I'm not using the Cygwin X server; instead, I'm using the Hummingbird Exceed server, version 7. I'm running multiple xterm windows; my window manager is fvwm2. I've seen the same error using the Cygwin XFree86 server. Just now, I tried to cut some text from an xterm window. When I released the mouse button, the xterm window died. The parent window had an error message identical to the one above (except that the atom id and serial numbers were different). I've tried backtracking to an older version of xterm, but so far I haven't been able to correct the problem. I have the latest versions of just about everything, except that I've downgraded XFree86-bin from 4.3.0-9 to 4.3.0-8. Here's the output of cygcheck -c | grep XFree86: XFree86-base4.3.0-1OK XFree86-bin 4.3.0-8OK XFree86-bin-icons 4.3.0-6OK XFree86-doc 4.3.0-1OK XFree86-etc 4.3.0-6OK XFree86-f1004.2.0-3OK XFree86-fcyr4.2.0-3OK XFree86-fenc4.2.0-3OK XFree86-fnts4.2.0-3OK XFree86-fscl4.2.0-3OK XFree86-fsrv4.3.0-7OK XFree86-html4.3.0-1OK XFree86-jdoc4.3.0-1OK XFree86-lib 4.3.0-1OK XFree86-lib-compat 4.3.0-2OK XFree86-man 4.3.0-3OK XFree86-nest4.3.0-5OK XFree86-prog4.3.0-13 OK XFree86-prt 4.3.0-5OK XFree86-ps 4.3.0-1OK XFree86-startup-scripts 4.2.0-5OK XFree86-vfb 4.3.0-5OK XFree86-xserv 4.3.0-47 OK XFree86-xwinclip4.3.0-2OK -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ghoti.net/~kst San Diego Supercomputer Center * http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst Schroedinger does Shakespeare: To be *and* not to be
Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
In my previous message, I missed a major piece of the puzzle. The xterm windows that are dying mysteriously are running on a Solaris system, not on my laptop under Cygwin. Here's the scenario. My laptop is baldur (IBM Thinkpad T40, Windows XP, Cygwin); my Sun workstation is elmak (Sun Blade 100, Solaris 8). On Baldur, I run the Hummingbird Exceed version 7 X server and the fvwm2 window manager (neither of which seems to be relevant). From an xterm window on baldur, I run xterm -e ssh elmak This gives me a shell on elmak running in an xterm window on baldur. With OpenSSH X11 forwarding, I have $DISPLAY set to 'elmak:7.0'. On elmak, I run xterm Now I have a second shell on elmak, this one in an xterm window running on elmak but displayed on baldur. No further forwarding is needed, so the new shell also has $DISPLAY set to 'elmak:7.0'. I can run X clients, such as xlogo, from any of these three windows, and they display properly. In the first two xterm windows, I can cut-and-paste. In the third (the Solaris xterm), if I try to highlight a region of text, the xterm dies as soon as I release the mouse button, and the parent window gets: xterm: warning, error event receieved: X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) Atom id in failed request: 0xb6 Serial number of failed request: 277 Current serial number in output stream: 279 This problem first showed up in the last few days, when I updated a bunch of XFree86 packages through the Cygwin setup utility. This isn't specific to Solaris. I get the same symptom with an xterm running on a variety of systems, including Red Hat with XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.55, AIX, and SunOS 4.1.3 with X11R6.3. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ghoti.net/~kst San Diego Supercomputer Center * http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst Schroedinger does Shakespeare: To be *and* not to be
Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
Another couple of data points: I don't need so many xterms to reproduce the problem. I can just ssh from baldur (in a non-xterm window) to elmak, then run a single xterm from there, and I see the same symptom. If I run rxvt rather than xterm, I get: rxvt: XError: Request: 18 . 0, Error: 5 emacs (in X mode) gives me a segmentation fault. xedit gives me the same error as xterm. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ghoti.net/~kst San Diego Supercomputer Center * http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst Schroedinger does Shakespeare: To be *and* not to be
Re: Copy Paste to Windows
You have to change that batch file: ### @echo off D: chdir D:\cygwinNEW\bin bash --login -c /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwin -query HOSTNAME ### Change it to: ### @echo off D: chdir D:\cygwinNEW\bin bash --login -c /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwin -clipboard -query HOSTNAME ### Harold
Re[2]: Copy Paste to Windows
Hello Harold L Hunt II , 15.01.2004 11:02:44 you wrote: HLH You have to change that batch file: HLH HLH ### HLH @echo off HLH HLH D: HLH chdir D:\cygwinNEW\bin HLH HLH bash --login -c /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwin -query HOSTNAME HLH ### HLH HLH Change it to: HLH HLH ### HLH @echo off HLH HLH D: HLH chdir D:\cygwinNEW\bin HLH HLH bash --login -c /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwin -clipboard -query HOSTNAME HLH ### HLH HLH Harold HLH __ Thank you it works for me now on Freebsd , the problem was and still is with Libranet (but it is not urgernt ). __ www.newmail.ru -- .
Copy Paste to Windows
Hello . I've read about uzing clipboard for copy paste and edited my startxwin.bat to start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard Yet I cannot copy . I use the last version of XFree , I ran the cygwin Instalaiton today ,from the web. Maybe I don't know how do I actually copy/paste . Do I use CTRL+C or CTRL+V when I copy to Windows and middle mouse when I copy to cygwin ? __ www.newmail.ru -- - .
Re: Copy Paste to Windows
Several mirrors are between 6 months and 3 months out of date. Please run cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv. If the version reported is not 4.3.0-40, then you installed from an out of date mirror and you need to use a different mirror. Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello . I've read about uzing clipboard for copy paste and edited my startxwin.bat to start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard Yet I cannot copy . I use the last version of XFree , I ran the cygwin Instalaiton today ,from the web. Maybe I don't know how do I actually copy/paste . Do I use CTRL+C or CTRL+V when I copy to Windows and middle mouse when I copy to cygwin ? __ www.newmail.ru -- - .
Re: Copy Paste to Windows
Yes, your problem must be the version of the xserver. If you had the right version all you'd have to do would be: To copy from cygwin to Windows (1) use the mouse to select (highlight) the text you want to copy (2) the highlighted text is now on the clipboard (3) if you want to paste that selection into word or notepad then use CTRL-V on the windows side To copy from Windows to cygwin (1) use the mouse to select (highlight) the text you want to copy (2) press CTRL-C to copy seletion into clipboard (3) go into your xterm and press the middle mouse button to paste. If you don't have a 3 button mouse use the -emulate3buttons option in the startxwin.bat file. Then, to paste, all you'd have to do is press the two mouse buttons simultaneously. To copy from cygwin to cygwin (1) use the mouse to select (highlight) the text you want to copy (2) that puts the selection into the clipboard (3) place the cursor where you want to paste the text (4) press the middle mouse button (or the two mouse buttons simultaneously if using the -emulate3buttons option) That's all. --B. Several mirrors are between 6 months and 3 months out of date. Please run cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv. If the version reported is not 4.3.0-40, then you installed from an out of date mirror and you need to use a different mirror. Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello . I've read about uzing clipboard for copy paste and edited my startxwin.bat to start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard Yet I cannot copy . I use the last version of XFree , I ran the cygwin Instalaiton today ,from the web. Maybe I don't know how do I actually copy/paste . Do I use CTRL+C or CTRL+V when I copy to Windows and middle mouse when I copy to cygwin ? __ www.newmail.ru -- ?? ???-?? ?.
Re[2]: Copy Paste to Windows
Hello Harold L Hunt II , 14.01.2004 18:40:10 you wrote: HLH Several mirrors are between 6 months and 3 months out of date. HLH HLH Please run cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv. If the version reported is not HLH 4.3.0-40, then you installed from an out of date mirror and you need HLH to use a different mirror. HLH HLH Harold HLH HLH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HLH Hello . HLH I've read about uzing clipboard for copy paste and edited my startxwin.bat to HLH HLH start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard HLH HLH Yet I cannot copy . I use the last version of XFree , I ran the cygwin Instalaiton today ,from the web. HLH HLH Maybe I don't know how do I actually copy/paste . Do I use CTRL+C or CTRL+V when I copy to Windows and HLH middle mouse when I copy to cygwin ? HLH __ HLH HLH __ The version is 4.3.0-40 . __ www.newmail.ru -- : -.
Re: Copy Paste to Windows
You copy text to the clipboard in Win32 with Ctrl+C. You then paste that in X11 with either a middle mouse button click or via a menu in the current application (if it has a Paste menu item). You copy text in X11 by highlighting it and, optionally, clicking the Copy button in a menu (if the application has a Copy menu item). Leave the text highlighted just to be sure. To paste that text in Win32, press Ctrl+V. Try this first with Notepad and an xterm. If you still do not succeed, send in /tmp/XWin.log from a failed attempt. Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Harold L Hunt II , 14.01.2004 18:40:10 you wrote: HLH Several mirrors are between 6 months and 3 months out of date. HLH HLH Please run cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv. If the version reported is not HLH 4.3.0-40, then you installed from an out of date mirror and you need HLH to use a different mirror. HLH HLH Harold HLH HLH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HLH Hello . HLH I've read about uzing clipboard for copy paste and edited my startxwin.bat to HLH HLH start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard HLH HLH Yet I cannot copy . I use the last version of XFree , I ran the cygwin Instalaiton today ,from the web. HLH HLH Maybe I don't know how do I actually copy/paste . Do I use CTRL+C or CTRL+V when I copy to Windows and HLH middle mouse when I copy to cygwin ? HLH __ HLH HLH __ The version is 4.3.0-40 . __ www.newmail.ru -- : -.
Re[2]: Copy Paste to Windows
Hello Harold L Hunt II , 15.01.2004 10:43:58 you wrote: HLH You copy text to the clipboard in Win32 with Ctrl+C. You then paste HLH that in X11 with either a middle mouse button click or via a menu in the HLH current application (if it has a Paste menu item). HLH HLH You copy text in X11 by highlighting it and, optionally, clicking the HLH Copy button in a menu (if the application has a Copy menu item). Leave HLH the text highlighted just to be sure. To paste that text in Win32, HLH press Ctrl+V. HLH HLH Try this first with Notepad and an xterm. HLH HLH If you still do not succeed, send in /tmp/XWin.log from a failed attempt. HLH HLH Harold HLH HLH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HLH HLH Hello Harold L Hunt II HLH HLH , 14.01.2004 18:40:10 you wrote: HLH HLH HLH Several mirrors are between 6 months and 3 months out of date. HLH HLH HLH HLH Please run cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv. If the version reported is not HLH HLH 4.3.0-40, then you installed from an out of date mirror and you need HLH HLH to use a different mirror. HLH HLH HLH HLH Harold HLH HLH HLH HLH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HLH HLH Hello . HLH HLH I've read about uzing clipboard for copy paste and edited my startxwin.bat to HLH HLH HLH HLH start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard HLH HLH HLH HLH Yet I cannot copy . I use the last version of XFree , I ran the cygwin Instalaiton today ,from the web. HLH HLH HLH HLH Maybe I don't know how do I actually copy/paste . Do I use CTRL+C or CTRL+V when I copy to Windows and HLH HLH middle mouse when I copy to cygwin ? HLH HLH __ HLH HLH HLH HLH __ HLH HLH HLH HLH HLH The version is 4.3.0-40 . HLH __ Yes , that is the way I do it . The clipboard remembers CTRL+C for Windows and copies it to Windows only . And at the same time copies to cygwin the last higlihted line in cygwin only. I left the line highlighted. Also , if it is important I run Cygwin from the batch file , which is : ### @echo off D: chdir D:\cygwinNEW\bin bash --login -c /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwin -query HOSTNAME ### Here is the XWin.log . ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file InitOutput - Error reading config file winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 001f InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1024 dwHeight: 768 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1024 h: 768 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1024 h: 768 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 738 1024 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 738 1024 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1018 h 706 r 1018 l 0 b 706 t 0 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 4072 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 4072 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 1018 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning InitOutput - Returning. MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0409 (0409) (EE) No primary keyboard configured (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard Rules = xfree86 Model = pc101 Layout = us Variant = (null) Options = (null) winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 509 353 winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winProcEstablishConnection - Xdmcp enabled, waiting to start clipboard client until fourth call. winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winProcEstablishConnection - Xdmcp enabled, waiting to start clipboard client until fourth call. winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winProcEstablishConnection - Xdmcp enabled, waiting to start clipboard client until fourth call. winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winProcQueryTree - Clipboard client already launched
Re: xwinclip installation problems (Re: Cut-Copy/Paste dies after several hours (-clipboard))
Jay, Jay Smith wrote: Harold, Maybe I am just being stupid, but I can't seem to find the clipboard program, because a) Using the Cygwin setup wizard to attempt to update my installation, I checked a couple mirrors and they don't seem to have xwinclip -- they only seem to have XFree86-xwinclip. It's on mirrors.rcn.net. Just confirmed and downloaded it. b) I went to the XFree86 web site and then the xwinclip site http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/xwinclip/ Obviously that page is long out of date so I don't know if I can trust anything it says about installation. At this point I don' know how to get the program to install it. That development page is out of date because the distribution method changed to finally use setup.exe. I will update it at some point, but it isn't very important at this time. c) Using your http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2003-10/msg00028.html information, I am supposed to use the Cygwin installation wizard, but as I said in a above, I am not finding the program. What am I missing? Dunno. You are choosing Install from Internet, right? The package is there... in the XFree86 category. Make sure you are looking below the XFree86-* packages. Harold
Cut-Copy/Paste dies after several hours (-clipboard)
Hi again, 1) Is this a known problem? Any suggestions? I thought I was going nuts, but it has happened enough times that I am sure it is really happening. My usual workday is about 14 hours. After around 9-11 hours, the -clipboard cut-copy/paste between Windows and Linux stops functioning. It seems that it no longer puts the highlighted content into to the/a paste buffer. I have not been able to determine if this is simply happening by itself of if some event is occuring. However, if I accidenally leave my X sessions up overnight, the cut-copy/paste rarely still works in the morning even though it may have worked when I left the night before. My Windows machine is Windows 95b. The Linux server on which the X applications are running is Red Hat 8, up2date with most recent updates. I have not been able to find instructions on Cygwin.com how to get a list of installed Cygwin/XFree version numbers. (Advice?) However, I installed everything freshly on 18 October 2003 if that helps. I am using the -clipboard option. I am not sure why I am not using xwinclip -- there was something that did not work at some point. 2) In case anybody is inspired to work on it, I still have the problem that if I don't get logged in to the XDM instantly, the cut-copy/paste does not function. I have mentioned this earlier and Harold said that he is otherwise occupied. I don't have the technical ability to do anything about it. When I say instantly, I mean that I have to absolutely type my name and password as fast as I possibly can -- and I am a very fast typist -- and about half the time, that is fast enough. If I am too slow, the cut-copy/paste does not work. Also, if the startup time of Xwin is too slow (i.e. first time run after PC is rebooted), then I rarely have a chance of cut-copy/paste working. Because of Win95 graphics resource issues, I have to reboot my machine every morning -- that means I have to log in to the XDM at least twice to get cut-copy/paste working. There is a particular click the hard disk makes (of the many that occur as programs are starting up) when this particular program is starting. I know 100% of the time that if the click happens before the login process is far enough along that the cut-copy-paste will not work. By the way, this also means if the Linux server is under heavy load and responding slowly at that moment that I am out of luck and will have to try again until things are fast enough getting logged in and up before cut-copy/paste will work. Jay -- Jay Smith e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.JaySmith.com Jay Smith Associates P.O. Box 650 Snow Camp, NC 27349 USA Phone: Int+US+336-376-9991 Toll-Free Phone in US Canada: 1-800-447-8267 Fax: Int+US+336-376-6750
Re: Cut-Copy/Paste dies after several hours (-clipboard)
xwinclip was updated on October 30th: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2003-10/msg00028.html Using the integrated -clipboard support prevents you from restarting the clipboard support if/when it dies. I would recommend using xwinclip in your case since you can restart it when it dies. It also might not die at all... since the external executable seems slightly more stable than the internal client running in a thread. You could also use the stand-alone xwinclip to delay the start of xwinclip until after you are logged into XDMCP. Kensuke backported the update to -clipboard to xwinclip... that is what the xwinclip-1.2.0-1 package was for. Note: XFree86-xwinclip is a dead package. It was renamed to just xwinclip. Hope that helps, Harold Jay Smith wrote: Hi again, 1) Is this a known problem? Any suggestions? I thought I was going nuts, but it has happened enough times that I am sure it is really happening. My usual workday is about 14 hours. After around 9-11 hours, the -clipboard cut-copy/paste between Windows and Linux stops functioning. It seems that it no longer puts the highlighted content into to the/a paste buffer. I have not been able to determine if this is simply happening by itself of if some event is occuring. However, if I accidenally leave my X sessions up overnight, the cut-copy/paste rarely still works in the morning even though it may have worked when I left the night before. My Windows machine is Windows 95b. The Linux server on which the X applications are running is Red Hat 8, up2date with most recent updates. I have not been able to find instructions on Cygwin.com how to get a list of installed Cygwin/XFree version numbers. (Advice?) However, I installed everything freshly on 18 October 2003 if that helps. I am using the -clipboard option. I am not sure why I am not using xwinclip -- there was something that did not work at some point. 2) In case anybody is inspired to work on it, I still have the problem that if I don't get logged in to the XDM instantly, the cut-copy/paste does not function. I have mentioned this earlier and Harold said that he is otherwise occupied. I don't have the technical ability to do anything about it. When I say instantly, I mean that I have to absolutely type my name and password as fast as I possibly can -- and I am a very fast typist -- and about half the time, that is fast enough. If I am too slow, the cut-copy/paste does not work. Also, if the startup time of Xwin is too slow (i.e. first time run after PC is rebooted), then I rarely have a chance of cut-copy/paste working. Because of Win95 graphics resource issues, I have to reboot my machine every morning -- that means I have to log in to the XDM at least twice to get cut-copy/paste working. There is a particular click the hard disk makes (of the many that occur as programs are starting up) when this particular program is starting. I know 100% of the time that if the click happens before the login process is far enough along that the cut-copy-paste will not work. By the way, this also means if the Linux server is under heavy load and responding slowly at that moment that I am out of luck and will have to try again until things are fast enough getting logged in and up before cut-copy/paste will work. Jay
Copy/Paste problems due to speed of xdm login process
Hi Harold, Kensuke, et al The copy/paste is working *much* better after your recent fix. However, I am having a very serious problem with it -- the copy/paste functionality only works if I login *extremely* fast to the XDM. I am a fast typist, but I can only login fast enough about half of the time. About 18 months ago (?) back when we were using xwinclip -- before it was integrated into the main program -- we had to put a sleep into the script to provide enough time for the communication to take place so that xwinclip would function. After xwinclip became integrated into the program, none of this was a problem, until I installed the new Cygwin a couple weeks ago. Can you do something to allow adequate time to login so that the copy/paste will function? Jay -- Jay Smith e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.JaySmith.com Jay Smith Associates P.O. Box 650 Snow Camp, NC 27349 USA Phone: Int+US+336-376-9991 Toll-Free Phone in US Canada: 1-800-447-8267 Fax: Int+US+336-376-6750
results/problems (Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters)
Harold, I have done the installation and I have several things to report. If some of these are not for this list, please advise. First of all, FYI, when I did the install, Progeny would not respond at all so I used Purdue. In any case, I turned OFF everything and then turned on only XFree xserve, scalable fonts, and xwinclip -- those of course caused some other things to turn on automatically. 1) The main problem of copy/paste of non-ascii characters *within* Linux Mozilla seems to be *fixed*. Thanks! However 2) I had my own modified script (with its own unique filename) that was used to start X; I guess this was before startxdmcp.bat was available. I copied my script into place. However, when I run MY script now, it seems like the command (in MY script) start XWin -nodecoration -clipboard -once -query jsa.jaysmith.com actually (also?) RUNS startxdmcp.bat That is very odd and I am not sure what to do. I had to modify startxdmcp.bat to bring it in line with my script so the proper command would get done. I believe that startxdmcp.bat is getting run because the DOS box that appears says so, identifying it by name -- even if *I* don't directly run it. 3) I think that startxdmcp.bat may have an error in it. The original version of it has the command: start XWin -query %REMOTE_HOST% -nodecoration -lesspointer and this causes an error in the DOS box about too many paramaters. I am certainly no expert, but I think that the -query should be the LAST thing on the command line. Anyway, when I made it so (like my original script) it worked without putting out the error. 4) Generally X performance seems to be better. It is very subjective, but so good, so far. Jay Harold L Hunt II said the following on 10/14/2003 10:28 PM: Jay, The status is that XFree86 has been recompiled and rereleased for Cygwin 1.5.x. Everything should be safe. However, I would always recommend doing a demo installation on one machine and trying out your apps before you upgrade all machines. That should give you a better idea of if it will work for you. One thing you can do is rename c:\cygwin to c:\cygwin_works, download setup.exe to c:\cyginstall_test, then run setup.exe and install to c:\cygwin (which is now an empty directory). This will allow you to test a complete new install and see if it works for you. You can then move c:\cygwin to c:\cygwin_test and move c:\cygwin_works back to c:\cygwin to restore your old installation. Harold Jay Smith wrote: Harold, Before I embark on upgrading all of Cygwin to deal with this, is there any risk that stuff will break? Since Cygwin underwent a major overhaul recently, it seems to me that there is a chance that some small parts of XFree86 stuff (I use little else) might be broken until all is brought up to speed. Since this is a minute-to-minute critical application (X windowing) upon which we rely 100%, I have to be very careful about changes. (Recalling recent RedHat library changes which broke lots of stuff and recent Perl version changes which wrecked our CGI scripts.) What is the status? Does all the XFree86 stuff work under the new Cygwin? Is it safe now? (I know that in the first few weeks it was not safe.) Jay Harold L Hunt II said the following on 10/14/2003 09:23 PM: Jay, Jay Smith wrote: Harold, a) Before I attempt this fix, will this work with my old version of everything else? I know that Cygwin has moved ahead since April. Or does installing this start me down a slippery slope... I hate when I forget to ask this if people are running the latest version or not. You really need to be running the latest versions in order for us to properly debug and test things. Yes, you will have to update to the 4.3.0 release of Cygwin/XFree86. I think I released it after April. All of the DLLs have had their names changed, so you need to get those (in the -bin package) but I believe I made the fonts in such a way that they will not download again unless you have a really old version. You will basically need to get anything that has a new version, since there have been updates to Cygwin's DLL, various libraries, etc. b) Before I had the sense to ask the question above, I got as far as starting the download process from a mirror that I had previously used. The setup program warned me that a newer setup.ini file would replace the old one, but did not seem to give me a way to cancel out. So, now I have an new setup.ini but old everything else files -- and I *do* need the old everything else to reinstall on PCs that die, etc. Am I screwed? Setup gives a warning about setup.ini telling it that there is a new version of setup.exe available and that you don't have it. Download the latest setup.exe and you won't get the warning (plus there has been a lot of development on setup.exe in the last several months). I'm not sure about the status of your installation images
Re: results/problems (Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters)
Jay, Jay Smith wrote: Harold, I have done the installation and I have several things to report. If some of these are not for this list, please advise. First of all, FYI, when I did the install, Progeny would not respond at all so I used Purdue. In any case, I turned OFF everything and then turned on only XFree xserve, scalable fonts, and xwinclip -- those of course caused some other things to turn on automatically. 1) The main problem of copy/paste of non-ascii characters *within* Linux Mozilla seems to be *fixed*. Thanks! That is good to know. Thanks to Kensuke Matsuzaki. However 2) I had my own modified script (with its own unique filename) that was used to start X; I guess this was before startxdmcp.bat was available. I copied my script into place. However, when I run MY script now, it seems like the command (in MY script) start XWin -nodecoration -clipboard -once -query jsa.jaysmith.com actually (also?) RUNS startxdmcp.bat That is very odd and I am not sure what to do. I had to modify startxdmcp.bat to bring it in line with my script so the proper command would get done. I believe that startxdmcp.bat is getting run because the DOS box that appears says so, identifying it by name -- even if *I* don't directly run it. You would have to send in your script and your copy of startxdmcp.bat and the exact command you are using to run your script in order for us to figure out what is going on. 3) I think that startxdmcp.bat may have an error in it. The original version of it has the command: start XWin -query %REMOTE_HOST% -nodecoration -lesspointer and this causes an error in the DOS box about too many paramaters. I am certainly no expert, but I think that the -query should be the LAST thing on the command line. Anyway, when I made it so (like my original script) it worked without putting out the error. Nope. The order of these parameters shouldn't matter. You may be having some trouble if %REMOTE_HOST% is not properly defined or if it has characters in it that are getting interpreted by the DOS batch processor. 4) Generally X performance seems to be better. It is very subjective, but so good, so far. Huh... no performance tweaks this time. Must just feel faster :) Harold
Re: Copy / Paste
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Cliff Stanford wrote: Hmm... CVS seems to be missing a copy of xc/programs/Xserver/xfixes/xfixesproto.h in the XFIXES_BRANCH which means that xfixes.c won't build. The files were in xc/include/extensions I've added them to the xoncygwin cvs. They will show up on public cvs tomorrow, Hmm. Still nothing. Just as a sanity check: $ cat CVS/Root :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/xoncygwin $ cat CVS/Tag TXFIXES_BRANCH This correct? Cliff. -- Cliff Stanford Might Limited +44 20 7257 2000 (Office) 17-18 Henrietta Street +44 7973 616 666 (Mobile) London WC2E 8QH
Re: Copy / Paste
Cliff, Sorry, I meant to mail these to you yesterday so that you could get started. I will send them off-list. Harold Cliff Stanford wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Cliff Stanford wrote: Hmm... CVS seems to be missing a copy of xc/programs/Xserver/xfixes/xfixesproto.h in the XFIXES_BRANCH which means that xfixes.c won't build. The files were in xc/include/extensions I've added them to the xoncygwin cvs. They will show up on public cvs tomorrow, Hmm. Still nothing. Just as a sanity check: $ cat CVS/Root :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/xoncygwin $ cat CVS/Tag TXFIXES_BRANCH This correct? Cliff.
Re: Copy / Paste
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I have written many messages about this before. I am surprised you haven't seen one yet. Thank you for your excellent responses. I had actually totally missed that there were searchable archives available. *blush* So, development is stuck now since I am working 30 or more hours a week and spending about 20 hours a week on my master's CS degree classes. The code is in the XFIXES_BRANCH in our xoncygwin CVS tree (see the message above for more details, I think), if you are interested in working on it. I've pulled down the tree but I'm not sure that the learning curve isn't going to be too great for me to get to grips with this code. Anyway, you're only working 50 hours a week. Put aside another 14 for sleep and you'll have it done in no time. :-) Good luck on the Masters and thanks for all the effort. Cygwin + XWin has made my life *so* much simpler. Yes, in Windows XP, turn on the 'quick edit' more for the command shell. This enables right-click to paste the current clipboard contents in your Cygwin bash shell. Other than that, good luck. :) Ooh, I never knew that. Thanks again. Regards, Cliff. -- Cliff Stanford Might Limited +44 20 7257 2000 (Office) 17-18 Henrietta Street +44 7973 616 666 (Mobile) London WC2E 8QH
Re: Copy / Paste
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The code is in the XFIXES_BRANCH in our xoncygwin CVS tree (see the message above for more details, I think), if you are interested in working on it. Hmm... CVS seems to be missing a copy of xc/programs/Xserver/xfixes/xfixesproto.h in the XFIXES_BRANCH which means that xfixes.c won't build. Cliff. -- Cliff Stanford Might Limited +44 20 7257 2000 (Office) 17-18 Henrietta Street +44 7973 616 666 (Mobile) London WC2E 8QH
Re: Copy / Paste
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Cliff Stanford wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The code is in the XFIXES_BRANCH in our xoncygwin CVS tree (see the message above for more details, I think), if you are interested in working on it. Hmm... CVS seems to be missing a copy of xc/programs/Xserver/xfixes/xfixesproto.h in the XFIXES_BRANCH which means that xfixes.c won't build. The files were in xc/include/extensions I've added them to the xoncygwin cvs. They will show up on public cvs tomorrow, bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters
Harold, a) Before I attempt this fix, will this work with my old version of everything else? I know that Cygwin has moved ahead since April. Or does installing this start me down a slippery slope... b) Before I had the sense to ask the question above, I got as far as starting the download process from a mirror that I had previously used. The setup program warned me that a newer setup.ini file would replace the old one, but did not seem to give me a way to cancel out. So, now I have an new setup.ini but old everything else files -- and I *do* need the old everything else to reinstall on PCs that die, etc. Am I screwed? Jay Harold L Hunt II said the following on 10/12/2003 11:01 PM: Jay, I just posted XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-20 as a 'test' package; it should be showing up on mirrors within a few hours. When it does, run setup.exe and manually select version '4.3.0-20' for the XFree86-xserv package. Then, run the new server version as usual (do not use the new flag that Kensuke talked about) and report your results to the mailing list. Harold Jay Smith wrote: Dear Kensuke, Thank you very much for your effort on this. Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant of these matters, thus you will have to tell me what it is that I should do with the two .diff files you attached. I will be happy to do whatever with them, but I am clueless as to what is to be done with them. Sorry to be a pain. Jay Kensuke Matsuzaki said the following on 10/12/2003 09:33 PM: Jay, Perhaps this patch enable XWin to copy/paste non-ascii characters even if Windows does't support Unicode (95/98/Me). LANG environment variable and Windows locale must be same. I added -nounicodeclipboard option, I tested using this on XP. But I don't have 95/98/Me. And it seems tha libX11 has some CTEXT convertion bug, I attach patch that based on TAKABE's work. http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~t-takabe/xf410_xim_fix.diff By the way, nls/locale.alias has alias somethig like Arabic_Egypt.1256. Can we use that? If so, we no longer need LANG environment variable. We can get it following code. char pszCountry[128]; char pszLanguage[128]; int nAcp = GetACP (); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY, pszCountry, 128); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE, pszLanguage, 128); printf (%s_%s.%d\n, pszLanguage, pszCountry, nAcp); Kensuke Matsuzaki -- Jay Smith e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.JaySmith.com Jay Smith Associates P.O. Box 650 Snow Camp, NC 27349 USA Phone: Int+US+336-376-9991 Toll-Free Phone in US Canada: 1-800-447-8267 Fax: Int+US+336-376-6750
Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters
Jay, Jay Smith wrote: Harold, a) Before I attempt this fix, will this work with my old version of everything else? I know that Cygwin has moved ahead since April. Or does installing this start me down a slippery slope... I hate when I forget to ask this if people are running the latest version or not. You really need to be running the latest versions in order for us to properly debug and test things. Yes, you will have to update to the 4.3.0 release of Cygwin/XFree86. I think I released it after April. All of the DLLs have had their names changed, so you need to get those (in the -bin package) but I believe I made the fonts in such a way that they will not download again unless you have a really old version. You will basically need to get anything that has a new version, since there have been updates to Cygwin's DLL, various libraries, etc. b) Before I had the sense to ask the question above, I got as far as starting the download process from a mirror that I had previously used. The setup program warned me that a newer setup.ini file would replace the old one, but did not seem to give me a way to cancel out. So, now I have an new setup.ini but old everything else files -- and I *do* need the old everything else to reinstall on PCs that die, etc. Am I screwed? Setup gives a warning about setup.ini telling it that there is a new version of setup.exe available and that you don't have it. Download the latest setup.exe and you won't get the warning (plus there has been a lot of development on setup.exe in the last several months). I'm not sure about the status of your installation images. It sounds like you have been doing a download to disk then installing from that? Uh... guess all I can tell you is that you should have backed up first :) Of course, you could just look at files that have been updated recently and check if setup.exe made a backup of the old setup.ini that you had. Harold Jay Harold L Hunt II said the following on 10/12/2003 11:01 PM: Jay, I just posted XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-20 as a 'test' package; it should be showing up on mirrors within a few hours. When it does, run setup.exe and manually select version '4.3.0-20' for the XFree86-xserv package. Then, run the new server version as usual (do not use the new flag that Kensuke talked about) and report your results to the mailing list. Harold Jay Smith wrote: Dear Kensuke, Thank you very much for your effort on this. Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant of these matters, thus you will have to tell me what it is that I should do with the two .diff files you attached. I will be happy to do whatever with them, but I am clueless as to what is to be done with them. Sorry to be a pain. Jay Kensuke Matsuzaki said the following on 10/12/2003 09:33 PM: Jay, Perhaps this patch enable XWin to copy/paste non-ascii characters even if Windows does't support Unicode (95/98/Me). LANG environment variable and Windows locale must be same. I added -nounicodeclipboard option, I tested using this on XP. But I don't have 95/98/Me. And it seems tha libX11 has some CTEXT convertion bug, I attach patch that based on TAKABE's work. http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~t-takabe/xf410_xim_fix.diff By the way, nls/locale.alias has alias somethig like Arabic_Egypt.1256. Can we use that? If so, we no longer need LANG environment variable. We can get it following code. char pszCountry[128]; char pszLanguage[128]; int nAcp = GetACP (); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY, pszCountry, 128); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE, pszLanguage, 128); printf (%s_%s.%d\n, pszLanguage, pszCountry, nAcp); Kensuke Matsuzaki
Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters
Harold, Before I embark on upgrading all of Cygwin to deal with this, is there any risk that stuff will break? Since Cygwin underwent a major overhaul recently, it seems to me that there is a chance that some small parts of XFree86 stuff (I use little else) might be broken until all is brought up to speed. Since this is a minute-to-minute critical application (X windowing) upon which we rely 100%, I have to be very careful about changes. (Recalling recent RedHat library changes which broke lots of stuff and recent Perl version changes which wrecked our CGI scripts.) What is the status? Does all the XFree86 stuff work under the new Cygwin? Is it safe now? (I know that in the first few weeks it was not safe.) Jay Harold L Hunt II said the following on 10/14/2003 09:23 PM: Jay, Jay Smith wrote: Harold, a) Before I attempt this fix, will this work with my old version of everything else? I know that Cygwin has moved ahead since April. Or does installing this start me down a slippery slope... I hate when I forget to ask this if people are running the latest version or not. You really need to be running the latest versions in order for us to properly debug and test things. Yes, you will have to update to the 4.3.0 release of Cygwin/XFree86. I think I released it after April. All of the DLLs have had their names changed, so you need to get those (in the -bin package) but I believe I made the fonts in such a way that they will not download again unless you have a really old version. You will basically need to get anything that has a new version, since there have been updates to Cygwin's DLL, various libraries, etc. b) Before I had the sense to ask the question above, I got as far as starting the download process from a mirror that I had previously used. The setup program warned me that a newer setup.ini file would replace the old one, but did not seem to give me a way to cancel out. So, now I have an new setup.ini but old everything else files -- and I *do* need the old everything else to reinstall on PCs that die, etc. Am I screwed? Setup gives a warning about setup.ini telling it that there is a new version of setup.exe available and that you don't have it. Download the latest setup.exe and you won't get the warning (plus there has been a lot of development on setup.exe in the last several months). I'm not sure about the status of your installation images. It sounds like you have been doing a download to disk then installing from that? Uh... guess all I can tell you is that you should have backed up first :) Of course, you could just look at files that have been updated recently and check if setup.exe made a backup of the old setup.ini that you had. Harold Jay Harold L Hunt II said the following on 10/12/2003 11:01 PM: Jay, I just posted XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-20 as a 'test' package; it should be showing up on mirrors within a few hours. When it does, run setup.exe and manually select version '4.3.0-20' for the XFree86-xserv package. Then, run the new server version as usual (do not use the new flag that Kensuke talked about) and report your results to the mailing list. Harold Jay Smith wrote: Dear Kensuke, Thank you very much for your effort on this. Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant of these matters, thus you will have to tell me what it is that I should do with the two .diff files you attached. I will be happy to do whatever with them, but I am clueless as to what is to be done with them. Sorry to be a pain. Jay Kensuke Matsuzaki said the following on 10/12/2003 09:33 PM: Jay, Perhaps this patch enable XWin to copy/paste non-ascii characters even if Windows does't support Unicode (95/98/Me). LANG environment variable and Windows locale must be same. I added -nounicodeclipboard option, I tested using this on XP. But I don't have 95/98/Me. And it seems tha libX11 has some CTEXT convertion bug, I attach patch that based on TAKABE's work. http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~t-takabe/xf410_xim_fix.diff By the way, nls/locale.alias has alias somethig like Arabic_Egypt.1256. Can we use that? If so, we no longer need LANG environment variable. We can get it following code. char pszCountry[128]; char pszLanguage[128]; int nAcp = GetACP (); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY, pszCountry, 128); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE, pszLanguage, 128); printf (%s_%s.%d\n, pszLanguage, pszCountry, nAcp); Kensuke Matsuzaki -- Jay Smith e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.JaySmith.com Jay Smith Associates P.O. Box 650 Snow Camp, NC 27349 USA Phone: Int+US+336-376-9991 Toll-Free Phone in US Canada: 1-800-447-8267 Fax: Int+US+336-376-6750
Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters
Jay, The status is that XFree86 has been recompiled and rereleased for Cygwin 1.5.x. Everything should be safe. However, I would always recommend doing a demo installation on one machine and trying out your apps before you upgrade all machines. That should give you a better idea of if it will work for you. One thing you can do is rename c:\cygwin to c:\cygwin_works, download setup.exe to c:\cyginstall_test, then run setup.exe and install to c:\cygwin (which is now an empty directory). This will allow you to test a complete new install and see if it works for you. You can then move c:\cygwin to c:\cygwin_test and move c:\cygwin_works back to c:\cygwin to restore your old installation. Harold Jay Smith wrote: Harold, Before I embark on upgrading all of Cygwin to deal with this, is there any risk that stuff will break? Since Cygwin underwent a major overhaul recently, it seems to me that there is a chance that some small parts of XFree86 stuff (I use little else) might be broken until all is brought up to speed. Since this is a minute-to-minute critical application (X windowing) upon which we rely 100%, I have to be very careful about changes. (Recalling recent RedHat library changes which broke lots of stuff and recent Perl version changes which wrecked our CGI scripts.) What is the status? Does all the XFree86 stuff work under the new Cygwin? Is it safe now? (I know that in the first few weeks it was not safe.) Jay Harold L Hunt II said the following on 10/14/2003 09:23 PM: Jay, Jay Smith wrote: Harold, a) Before I attempt this fix, will this work with my old version of everything else? I know that Cygwin has moved ahead since April. Or does installing this start me down a slippery slope... I hate when I forget to ask this if people are running the latest version or not. You really need to be running the latest versions in order for us to properly debug and test things. Yes, you will have to update to the 4.3.0 release of Cygwin/XFree86. I think I released it after April. All of the DLLs have had their names changed, so you need to get those (in the -bin package) but I believe I made the fonts in such a way that they will not download again unless you have a really old version. You will basically need to get anything that has a new version, since there have been updates to Cygwin's DLL, various libraries, etc. b) Before I had the sense to ask the question above, I got as far as starting the download process from a mirror that I had previously used. The setup program warned me that a newer setup.ini file would replace the old one, but did not seem to give me a way to cancel out. So, now I have an new setup.ini but old everything else files -- and I *do* need the old everything else to reinstall on PCs that die, etc. Am I screwed? Setup gives a warning about setup.ini telling it that there is a new version of setup.exe available and that you don't have it. Download the latest setup.exe and you won't get the warning (plus there has been a lot of development on setup.exe in the last several months). I'm not sure about the status of your installation images. It sounds like you have been doing a download to disk then installing from that? Uh... guess all I can tell you is that you should have backed up first :) Of course, you could just look at files that have been updated recently and check if setup.exe made a backup of the old setup.ini that you had. Harold Jay Harold L Hunt II said the following on 10/12/2003 11:01 PM: Jay, I just posted XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-20 as a 'test' package; it should be showing up on mirrors within a few hours. When it does, run setup.exe and manually select version '4.3.0-20' for the XFree86-xserv package. Then, run the new server version as usual (do not use the new flag that Kensuke talked about) and report your results to the mailing list. Harold Jay Smith wrote: Dear Kensuke, Thank you very much for your effort on this. Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant of these matters, thus you will have to tell me what it is that I should do with the two .diff files you attached. I will be happy to do whatever with them, but I am clueless as to what is to be done with them. Sorry to be a pain. Jay Kensuke Matsuzaki said the following on 10/12/2003 09:33 PM: Jay, Perhaps this patch enable XWin to copy/paste non-ascii characters even if Windows does't support Unicode (95/98/Me). LANG environment variable and Windows locale must be same. I added -nounicodeclipboard option, I tested using this on XP. But I don't have 95/98/Me. And it seems tha libX11 has some CTEXT convertion bug, I attach patch that based on TAKABE's work. http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~t-takabe/xf410_xim_fix.diff By the way, nls/locale.alias has alias somethig like Arabic_Egypt.1256. Can we use that? If so, we no longer need LANG environment variable. We can get it following code. char pszCountry[128]; char pszLanguage[128
Re: Copy / Paste
Cliff, Cliff Stanford wrote: Copy and paste to and from windows applications seems to be a lot more stable now with the latest patches (thanks). However, I still have the problem that, when I highlight something in an X window, it immediately un-highlights itself. Yes. I start XWin from /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat with the following command: start XWin -multiwindow -nounixkill -clipboard -nowinkill If I leave off the -clipboard, highlighting works as expected. If I then run clipbrd.exe I get the same behaviour as with the -clipboard option. Is this expected behaviour? Or am I doing something wrong? Yes, it is expected. I have written many messages about this before. I am surprised you haven't seen one yet. Here is one of my more recent messages on how development is going: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-06/msg00146.html I succeeded in using XFIXES to detect when the clipboard contents had changed. However, that introduced a new problem of having to flag which application changed the clipboard and stop trying to notify and copy the contents on those changes. The problem here was that the clipboard change detection caused an infinite loop. I made a quick and dirty change to stop the loop; it worked but I needed to spend more time looking into how it should be done properly. So, development is stuck now since I am working 30 or more hours a week and spending about 20 hours a week on my master's CS degree classes. The code is in the XFIXES_BRANCH in our xoncygwin CVS tree (see the message above for more details, I think), if you are interested in working on it. Harold P.S. And does anyone have a cure for my constantly pressing the right-button in windows applications and wondering why it doesn't paste anything? :-) Yes, in Windows XP, turn on the 'quick edit' more for the command shell. This enables right-click to paste the current clipboard contents in your Cygwin bash shell. Other than that, good luck. :)
Re: Copy / Paste
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Cliff Stanford wrote: [snip] P.S. And does anyone have a cure for my constantly pressing the right-button in windows applications and wondering why it doesn't paste anything? :-) Yes, in Windows XP, turn on the 'quick edit' more for the command shell. This enables right-click to paste the current clipboard contents in your Cygwin bash shell. Other than that, good luck. :) Cliff, The above should also work in Win2k. You can also use rxvt to host your shells, which should be pretty uniform across all platforms. Did you look into Windows power toys? They may do what you want, but there were reports of some of them causing problems with other Cygwin and X applications. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
Copy/Paste problems when contains non-ascii characters
Hi, My copy/paste behavior in MOZILLA running on RedHat 8 LINUX has gone from bad to worse when I upgraded the Mozilla from 1.2.x to 1.4. Important: The Mozilla is LINUX Mozilla running on an RH8 server. I am sitting at a Windows 95 PC, using Cygwin/XFree86 to run an X session on the PC. I am sitting at a PC, not at a Linux box. (Most people don't get this and thus reply using wrong assumptions.) WHEN RUNNING Linux Mozilla ON PC USING CYGWIN: (old) MOZ 1.2.x: When I copied text that contained a non-ascii typical European or Scandinavian character from an existing email and PASTED INTO A MOZILLA MAIL COMPOSE window, the text up to, but NOT including, the character would copy AND PASTE. That was bad, but at least you got something (the text before the character). (new) MOZ 1.4: However, now, if the copy contains such a character, NOTHING gets pasted into A MOZILLA MAIL COMPOSE window. It changed from partial to nothing. I AM still able to paste full and properly into windows applications from Mozilla, including such common European and Scandinvian characters. Because there has been no change to the Cygwin installation on this PC, I don't think the *change* in the problem is related to that. However, the root of the problem seems to be related to Cygwin. By contrast, IF I AM WORKING DIRECTLY/PHYSICALLY ON THE LINUX SERVER: Mozilla 1.2.x or 1.4: I *CAN* fully and properly cut/paste the very same text. MY ENVIRONMENT IS: Server: Red Hat Linux 8 Workstation: Windows 95 running Cygwin (I think these are the version numbers of what I have installed; they were as of April 2003 and I don't think I have installed any new Cygwin stuff on this machine since then -- but I don't know how to find out what versions I am running. How do I?) XFree86-base 4.2.0-1 -lib 4.2.0-5 -xserv4.2.0-28 -xwinclip 4.2.0-8 Jay -- Jay Smith e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.JaySmith.com Jay Smith Associates P.O. Box 650 Snow Camp, NC 27349 USA Phone: Int+US+336-376-9991 Toll-Free Phone in US Canada: 1-800-447-8267 Fax: Int+US+336-376-6750
Re: Copy/Paste problems when contains non-ascii characters
Jay, Your problem is that you are using Windows 95, which does not natively support unicode text. There is support in Cygwin/XFree86 for converting characters to unicode and back, but it only works on NT-based platforms (NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003). The Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/Me Systems should allow the support to work properly, but we would have to change the unicode support detection slightly for this to take effect. Have you installed the unicode support for Windows 95? More information and a link to download are here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/devnotes/winprog/microsoft_layer_for_unicode_on_windows_95_98_me_systems.asp Or, the tiny url to the same thing: http://tinyurl.com/qo9n Hmm... just did some more checking... using the Layer for Unicode support will not be trivial. Kensuke may be interested in it as an alternative to using libiconv on Windows 95/98/Me. As for why you text copying is truncated vs. not appearing at all, I suspect that Mozilla 1.2.x to 1.4 changed the format of some clipboard data from plain text to INCR. But that would only make sense if you have only tried this with the versions of XFree86-xserv that don't crash when they see an INCR clipboard format. If you didn't try this until recently, then that would explain your problem. You should at least be thankful that XWin.exe doesn't core dump like it used to in these cases. In summary, your problem is known, it isn't trivial to solve, and the change from Mozilla 1.2.x to 1.4 is due to a change that they made, not something that we did. Also, your issue is already known to be not an issue on NT-based platforms, so the Microsoft answer to this problem would be The Cygwin/XFree86 has identified this to be a problem with the products listed above., with the idea being that they might fix it or they might not, but perhaps you should consider upgrading to a more recent version of Windows. In other words, you are more likely to get your problem fixed by spending $200 of your own money upgrading to Windows XP, versus me spending $2000 of my time to cobble together a fix for Windows 95/98/Me. That's just being honest. Thanks for testing, Harold Jay Smith wrote: Hi, My copy/paste behavior in MOZILLA running on RedHat 8 LINUX has gone from bad to worse when I upgraded the Mozilla from 1.2.x to 1.4. Important: The Mozilla is LINUX Mozilla running on an RH8 server. I am sitting at a Windows 95 PC, using Cygwin/XFree86 to run an X session on the PC. I am sitting at a PC, not at a Linux box. (Most people don't get this and thus reply using wrong assumptions.) WHEN RUNNING Linux Mozilla ON PC USING CYGWIN: (old) MOZ 1.2.x: When I copied text that contained a non-ascii typical European or Scandinavian character from an existing email and PASTED INTO A MOZILLA MAIL COMPOSE window, the text up to, but NOT including, the character would copy AND PASTE. That was bad, but at least you got something (the text before the character). (new) MOZ 1.4: However, now, if the copy contains such a character, NOTHING gets pasted into A MOZILLA MAIL COMPOSE window. It changed from partial to nothing. I AM still able to paste full and properly into windows applications from Mozilla, including such common European and Scandinvian characters. Because there has been no change to the Cygwin installation on this PC, I don't think the *change* in the problem is related to that. However, the root of the problem seems to be related to Cygwin. By contrast, IF I AM WORKING DIRECTLY/PHYSICALLY ON THE LINUX SERVER: Mozilla 1.2.x or 1.4: I *CAN* fully and properly cut/paste the very same text. MY ENVIRONMENT IS: Server: Red Hat Linux 8 Workstation: Windows 95 running Cygwin (I think these are the version numbers of what I have installed; they were as of April 2003 and I don't think I have installed any new Cygwin stuff on this machine since then -- but I don't know how to find out what versions I am running. How do I?) XFree86-base 4.2.0-1 -lib 4.2.0-5 -xserv4.2.0-28 -xwinclip 4.2.0-8 Jay
[PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters
Jay, Perhaps this patch enable XWin to copy/paste non-ascii characters even if Windows does't support Unicode (95/98/Me). LANG environment variable and Windows locale must be same. I added -nounicodeclipboard option, I tested using this on XP. But I don't have 95/98/Me. And it seems tha libX11 has some CTEXT convertion bug, I attach patch that based on TAKABE's work. http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~t-takabe/xf410_xim_fix.diff By the way, nls/locale.alias has alias somethig like Arabic_Egypt.1256. Can we use that? If so, we no longer need LANG environment variable. We can get it following code. char pszCountry[128]; char pszLanguage[128]; int nAcp = GetACP (); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY, pszCountry, 128); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE, pszLanguage, 128); printf (%s_%s.%d\n, pszLanguage, pszCountry, nAcp); Kensuke Matsuzaki clipboard_mb.diff Description: Binary data X11.diff Description: Binary data
Re: Copy/Paste problems when contains non-ascii characters
Hi Harold, Thanks for your input. Either I don't understand all of what you are saying or you don't understand the problem -- though Windows 95 is always a problem. :-) I *can* copy/paste from Linux Mozilla 1.4 to Windows 95. That is okay. What I *can't* do is copy/paste within Linux Mozilla 1.4 (running in X, when the copy contains European characters) When I was using Linux Mozilla 1.2, the paste truncated immediately before the European character. Now, under Linux Mozilla 1.4, the paste is null (nothing pastes). I was doing this all the time under Linux Mozilla 1.2 (since about February 2003) without any problem (other than the darn truncation). No crashes or other problems of that nature. Regarding getting off Windows 95 you are quite right, however, the economics are not as you assume. What it really means is a) also replacing all the workstations (these are Pentium 200 or 300 machines); b) switching to Linux *IF* Linux could get its productivity apps up to a productive level (I don't mind twiddling around with them, but I certainly can't have my staff -- who are lucky to find the on button) dealing the the Linux problems I have to deal with every day; c) finding, replacing, configuring, and learning software for the roughly 30 (thirty) apps we run. Even if we stayed with Windows (going to 2000 Professional probably), just replacing the apps would cost $3000+ per seat and the machines around $1500 per seat. In a small company like mine, a conversion like this could put us out of business if we are not careful. A week out of business is close to our annual profit. Thus we hang on until we really have to make the switch. Hopefully Linux will get there (but the bugs I have encountered in only 2 days of use of Mozilla 1.4 make me wonder.) Jay Harold L Hunt II said the following on 10/12/2003 07:24 PM: Jay, Your problem is that you are using Windows 95, which does not natively support unicode text. There is support in Cygwin/XFree86 for converting characters to unicode and back, but it only works on NT-based platforms (NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003). The Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/Me Systems should allow the support to work properly, but we would have to change the unicode support detection slightly for this to take effect. Have you installed the unicode support for Windows 95? More information and a link to download are here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/devnotes/winprog/microsoft_layer_for_unicode_on_windows_95_98_me_systems.asp Or, the tiny url to the same thing: http://tinyurl.com/qo9n Hmm... just did some more checking... using the Layer for Unicode support will not be trivial. Kensuke may be interested in it as an alternative to using libiconv on Windows 95/98/Me. As for why you text copying is truncated vs. not appearing at all, I suspect that Mozilla 1.2.x to 1.4 changed the format of some clipboard data from plain text to INCR. But that would only make sense if you have only tried this with the versions of XFree86-xserv that don't crash when they see an INCR clipboard format. If you didn't try this until recently, then that would explain your problem. You should at least be thankful that XWin.exe doesn't core dump like it used to in these cases. In summary, your problem is known, it isn't trivial to solve, and the change from Mozilla 1.2.x to 1.4 is due to a change that they made, not something that we did. Also, your issue is already known to be not an issue on NT-based platforms, so the Microsoft answer to this problem would be The Cygwin/XFree86 has identified this to be a problem with the products listed above., with the idea being that they might fix it or they might not, but perhaps you should consider upgrading to a more recent version of Windows. In other words, you are more likely to get your problem fixed by spending $200 of your own money upgrading to Windows XP, versus me spending $2000 of my time to cobble together a fix for Windows 95/98/Me. That's just being honest. Thanks for testing, Harold Jay Smith wrote: Hi, My copy/paste behavior in MOZILLA running on RedHat 8 LINUX has gone from bad to worse when I upgraded the Mozilla from 1.2.x to 1.4. Important: The Mozilla is LINUX Mozilla running on an RH8 server. I am sitting at a Windows 95 PC, using Cygwin/XFree86 to run an X session on the PC. I am sitting at a PC, not at a Linux box. (Most people don't get this and thus reply using wrong assumptions.) WHEN RUNNING Linux Mozilla ON PC USING CYGWIN: (old) MOZ 1.2.x: When I copied text that contained a non-ascii typical European or Scandinavian character from an existing email and PASTED INTO A MOZILLA MAIL COMPOSE window, the text up to, but NOT including, the character would copy AND PASTE. That was bad, but at least you got something (the text before the character). (new) MOZ 1.4: However, now
Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters
Dear Kensuke, Thank you very much for your effort on this. Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant of these matters, thus you will have to tell me what it is that I should do with the two .diff files you attached. I will be happy to do whatever with them, but I am clueless as to what is to be done with them. Sorry to be a pain. Jay Kensuke Matsuzaki said the following on 10/12/2003 09:33 PM: Jay, Perhaps this patch enable XWin to copy/paste non-ascii characters even if Windows does't support Unicode (95/98/Me). LANG environment variable and Windows locale must be same. I added -nounicodeclipboard option, I tested using this on XP. But I don't have 95/98/Me. And it seems tha libX11 has some CTEXT convertion bug, I attach patch that based on TAKABE's work. http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~t-takabe/xf410_xim_fix.diff By the way, nls/locale.alias has alias somethig like Arabic_Egypt.1256. Can we use that? If so, we no longer need LANG environment variable. We can get it following code. char pszCountry[128]; char pszLanguage[128]; int nAcp = GetACP (); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY, pszCountry, 128); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE, pszLanguage, 128); printf (%s_%s.%d\n, pszLanguage, pszCountry, nAcp); Kensuke Matsuzaki -- Jay Smith e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.JaySmith.com Jay Smith Associates P.O. Box 650 Snow Camp, NC 27349 USA Phone: Int+US+336-376-9991 Toll-Free Phone in US Canada: 1-800-447-8267 Fax: Int+US+336-376-6750
Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters
Jay, I think he probably sent the patches for me to make a release with. You shouldn't have to do anything with them yourself. Harold Jay Smith wrote: Dear Kensuke, Thank you very much for your effort on this. Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant of these matters, thus you will have to tell me what it is that I should do with the two .diff files you attached. I will be happy to do whatever with them, but I am clueless as to what is to be done with them. Sorry to be a pain. Jay Kensuke Matsuzaki said the following on 10/12/2003 09:33 PM: Jay, Perhaps this patch enable XWin to copy/paste non-ascii characters even if Windows does't support Unicode (95/98/Me). LANG environment variable and Windows locale must be same. I added -nounicodeclipboard option, I tested using this on XP. But I don't have 95/98/Me. And it seems tha libX11 has some CTEXT convertion bug, I attach patch that based on TAKABE's work. http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~t-takabe/xf410_xim_fix.diff By the way, nls/locale.alias has alias somethig like Arabic_Egypt.1256. Can we use that? If so, we no longer need LANG environment variable. We can get it following code. char pszCountry[128]; char pszLanguage[128]; int nAcp = GetACP (); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY, pszCountry, 128); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE, pszLanguage, 128); printf (%s_%s.%d\n, pszLanguage, pszCountry, nAcp); Kensuke Matsuzaki
Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters
Kensuke,
Do you think the following change that you made might stop a potential
memory leak?
/* */
if (nNum ppList *ppList)
{
- XFree (xtpName.value);
*ppName = strdup (*ppList);
XFreeStringList (ppList);
}
+ XFree (xtpName.value);
Harold
Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote:
Jay,
Perhaps this patch enable XWin to copy/paste non-ascii characters
even if Windows does't support Unicode (95/98/Me).
LANG environment variable and Windows locale must be same.
I added -nounicodeclipboard option, I tested using this on XP.
But I don't have 95/98/Me.
And it seems tha libX11 has some CTEXT convertion bug, I attach
patch that based on TAKABE's work.
http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~t-takabe/xf410_xim_fix.diff
By the way, nls/locale.alias has alias somethig like
Arabic_Egypt.1256. Can we use that?
If so, we no longer need LANG environment variable.
We can get it following code.
char pszCountry[128];
char pszLanguage[128];
int nAcp = GetACP ();
GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY, pszCountry, 128);
GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE, pszLanguage, 128);
printf (%s_%s.%d\n, pszLanguage, pszCountry, nAcp);
Kensuke Matsuzaki
Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters
Jay, I just posted XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-20 as a 'test' package; it should be showing up on mirrors within a few hours. When it does, run setup.exe and manually select version '4.3.0-20' for the XFree86-xserv package. Then, run the new server version as usual (do not use the new flag that Kensuke talked about) and report your results to the mailing list. Harold Jay Smith wrote: Dear Kensuke, Thank you very much for your effort on this. Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant of these matters, thus you will have to tell me what it is that I should do with the two .diff files you attached. I will be happy to do whatever with them, but I am clueless as to what is to be done with them. Sorry to be a pain. Jay Kensuke Matsuzaki said the following on 10/12/2003 09:33 PM: Jay, Perhaps this patch enable XWin to copy/paste non-ascii characters even if Windows does't support Unicode (95/98/Me). LANG environment variable and Windows locale must be same. I added -nounicodeclipboard option, I tested using this on XP. But I don't have 95/98/Me. And it seems tha libX11 has some CTEXT convertion bug, I attach patch that based on TAKABE's work. http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~t-takabe/xf410_xim_fix.diff By the way, nls/locale.alias has alias somethig like Arabic_Egypt.1256. Can we use that? If so, we no longer need LANG environment variable. We can get it following code. char pszCountry[128]; char pszLanguage[128]; int nAcp = GetACP (); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY, pszCountry, 128); GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE, pszLanguage, 128); printf (%s_%s.%d\n, pszLanguage, pszCountry, nAcp); Kensuke Matsuzaki
Re: xfree86 cut/copy/paste
Redirecting to the correct list and replying. Please remove cygwin at cygwin dot com from further discussion on this topic. On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Bill McCormick wrote: Hello, Is there cut/copy/paste functionality with xfree86 (using windows clipboard) like there is with rxvt? I'm sure this has come up before but I can't seem to find it. Thanks, Bill Bill, Try giving a -clipboard argument to XWin.exe, or use the xwinclip utility (although the latter is outdated, IIRC). Search the cygwin-xfree list archives for either clipboard or xwinclip for more details. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
cygwin/xfree86 copy paste does not work
Hi, I just installed cygwin/xfree86, however, I can't copy paste in xterm the usual way, that is, highlight with mouse left button, and paste with mouse middle button. While run /tmp/Xinstall.sh, I notice a warning something like, tic can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.terminfo There is no xterm.terminfo indeed, instead, a file name xterm.termcap resides in that directory. Also, Xinstall.sh suggests me to manually modify /etc/termcap, replacing xterm in this file with those in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.termcap, I don't quite understand what this exactly means. But I feel somehow this is related to the xterm copy paste problem. Anyone out there can help me with this? Please e-mail reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks a lot. John __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
