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Fri, 10 Oct 2003

Fri Oct 10 13:59:04 2003 Cut & Paste not happy

Continuing to run

C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard

Now I can't cut & paste either from windows to unix (emacs or xterm) or vice versa.

I recall on my home machine, running Xwin32, that sometimes the clipboard would get tired and stop working. I recall that I had a technique to revive, but I've forgotten what it was.

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Fri Oct 10 11:47:01 2003 Integrating the X clipboard with windows
Colin writes:

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear about this Mitch, the startxwin.bat file does not start X with the -clipboard option. Here's what I do to get around this.

Start up xwin with the following command

xwin -multiwindow -clipboard

and then I use the Secure Shell ssh client to connect to a remote host and have it set to tunnel X back to my computer. That seems to do the trick for me.

You should find that the scroll button on your mouse also acts as the middle button for pasting in to X applications.

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Fri Oct 10 07:52:39 2003 Directories, RSS configured
The link to the RSS feed now seems right, but I don't read RSS. Can anybody confirm that it is doing the right thing?

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