(Solution) Copy-Cut/Paste between applications

Jay Smith <jay-BB6z0fKkvBxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
Organization Jay Smith and Associates
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I know that this is not a "solutions" list, but since there are many 
concerned about this problem, I wanted to mention...

I use a Windows 95 PC that has its Linux RH8 windows and applications 
through Xwindowing provided by *Cygwin*.  Cygwin now has in it (I think the 
name is correct) xwinclip which provides *complete* cut-copy/paste 
interoperability between all my Linux applications and all my Windows 
applications.  I can copy-cut/paste between Windows Wordperfect 8 and Linux 
Mozilla 1.2.x, etc.

[xwinclip has a bug/feature that prevents copy-copy/paste above ASCII 128.]

It is my understanding that Cygwin also runs in Linux and could be 
configured to provide the same benefits.

By the way, Windows 95b machines even with only a 300MHz processor, 128MB 
memory, and 8 MB of graphics memory run this configuration just fine; four 
or five big Win95 apps and about 10 Linux terminal windows, plus Linux 
Mozilla, plus Linux Open Office.  Yeah, I do have to voluntarily reboot 
once a day before I am "forced" to, but it does work.

When Linux Windows-supporting apps get a little better and I can run things 
like Windows FrameMaker and Windows Benthic Golden32 Oracle Tools on Linux, 
my company will switch to 100% linux.

Jay
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