XMing clipboard: troubleshooting Linux to Windows transfer
 

I have poured through several different Google searches but have yet to have a previous problem quite like mine.

I am using XMing+Putty to access a Linux machine from an XP32 machine. I can copy text from windows and paste it to Linux fine, but I can't copy from Linux and paste to Windows consistently. If I try several times (or hold down the paste keystroke) it will eventually paste; sometimes several times!

I would like to improve the consistency of my Linux to Window pastes. I have per-mutated every combo of Clipboard and Clipboard2. I can not edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf like some other fixes suggest. I have been informed the Linux admins will not allocate resources to resolve this problem in the near future so any fixes need to be Windows side or able to be done without root/admin privileges.

Thanks for any help.

Are you cutting and pasting between MSWin and PuTTY or between MSWin and an X-Windows application (e.g. xterm)? I never have any issue pasting between MSWin and PuTTY in either direction.

Anyway we found Xming not to be optimal for some our X stuff so instead installed Cygwin on XP and use Cygwin's X when we need X applications displayed back to our XP systems. You might want to try that and see if it works out better for you.

Clarification of environment:

I am cutting and pasting between Windows (XP32 SP3) and gnome-terminal. The X server is XMing and the ssh client is putty. XMing is running in multi-window mode and auto-runs Putty to auto-run gnome-terminal.

I chose gnome-terminal because it has tabs, a softer visual style, and fewer options/features that make no sense in a limited/windows environment (like kterminal has). If someone knows other common/easy to install terminal emulators with these features I'm all ears.

Just a final bump in the hopes that someone can help.

I use mobaterm. See if that helps any?? Pretty sure I had used the cut and paste. Dunno I forget too.