Today I just discovered why I was sometimes having weird clipboard problems when using VNC and Cyngwin/X on my Windows XP machine. See, I VNC in to my OS X machine (it’s an iBook I like to stow away when I’m on my desktop) and also run Cygwin’s X Windows server (I hate the cmd.exe shell, so I use xterm). It seems than when both are running, the clipboard synchronization logic in VNC and Cygwin/X seem to trip each other up after some time (not sure how or why). So for a while copy and paste works, but eventually it stops.
The fix: restart VNC, Cygwin, or both.
0 Comments on “Cygwin/X and VNC: clipboard conflicts on OS X and Win XP”
Leave a Comment