Re: X11 Selections

2004-01-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I have followed through on the idea that Alexander and I were working on. I am trapping the SetSelectionOwner call within the server and I am using it, together with monitoring the Windows clipboard chain, to determine when to copy data from which clipboard. There are still some bugs in this c

Re: X11 Selections

2004-01-04 Thread Kensuke Matsuzaki
Harold, I think you were working on XFIXES extention to solve #1. Is that another solution? > 1) Stop stealing the selection ownership as a means to tell when the > clipboard has changed within X. > > 2) Don't require an X Client connection and try to remove the dependency > on Xlib. > > The

X server does not connect

2004-01-04 Thread Frank Thiel
Hello, I did download Cygwin-Xfee and install on Win-XP Notebook 128 MB RAM Celeron Processor. After installing I want to connect to my Linux-machine doing: c:\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin\Xwin -query IPNUMBER The X-server starts, but does not connect to remote machine. (Grey screen with "x") To rule

Re: X server does not connect

2004-01-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Frank Thiel wrote: > Hello, > I did download Cygwin-Xfee and install on Win-XP Notebook 128 MB RAM Celeron > Processor. After installing I want to connect to my Linux-machine doing: > c:\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin\Xwin -query IPNUMBER Is any kind of Personal firewall installed (or the one from WinXP ac

Re: X11 Selections

2004-01-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: > The new code solves problem #1, but it does nothing for #2, since we > still need an X Client connection to receive the contents of the > selection This one is quite complex: Hook into ProcSendEvent and catch Selection* events for the rootwindow (or the fake window id)

Re: X11 Selections

2004-01-04 Thread Kensuke Matsuzaki
Alexander, > > and we still need Xlib to convert the selection into the desired format. > > Which conversions are these? Can they be done by other libraries or by using > connection idependent code from libX11 (which could be staticly linked) Conversion text encoding between compound text, UTF-8

Re: X11 Selections

2004-01-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: Alexander, and we still need Xlib to convert the selection into the desired format. Which conversions are these? Can they be done by other libraries or by using connection idependent code from libX11 (which could be staticly linked) Conversion text encoding between comp

Re: X11 Selections

2004-01-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Kensuke, Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: Harold, I think you were working on XFIXES extention to solve #1. Is that another solution? Yes, I was working on using XFIXES, but it was very difficult to get code within the server to compile with and use the XFIXES extension. The clipboard integration is o

Documentation - Reorganized FAQ posted

2004-01-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander Gottwald reorganized the FAQ (http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/), moving questions about XDMCP, X11 tunnelling, and I18N support into their own sections. Harold

Re: X11 Selections

2004-01-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: Alexander, and we still need Xlib to convert the selection into the desired format. Which conversions are these? Can they be done by other libraries or by using connection idependent code from libX11 (which could be staticly linked) Conversi