xwinclip consistently unable to open clipboard

2004-03-02 Thread Ed Avis
Because of experiencing hangs when using the built-in clipboard support (see other threads), I have switched to running xwinclip.exe separately. It normally works but recently, with the X server having been running for a while, xwinclip died with 'unable to open clipboard'. The full output was U

Re: xwinclip consistently unable to open clipboard

2004-03-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Ed Avis wrote: > Previously, I've had xwinclip crash but been able to restart it. But > now when I try to restart xwinclip it dies immediately: > > UnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP > Unicode clipboard I/O > OpenClipboard () failed: If this happens you can try to