I'm seeing some weird, new behavior with rxvt under cygwin-1.5.0-1
related to copy/paste and its interaction with the Windows
clipboard. All of the weirdness described below goes away when I
revert to 1.3.22. I'm running under Win2k Pro SP4.
It seems that if I startup rxvt directly from Windows (Run box or
cmd.exe shell), that rxvt works fine wrt copy/paste. But, if I
start bash or ash first, and then start rxvt from there, the rxvt
copy/paste does not interact with the Windows clipboard at all.
Also, it seems that two rxvt windows start from the same bash/ash
process can copy/paste between one another, but not if they are
started from a different bash/ash process.
Here's an example. From a DOS box, run
rxvt -e /bin/sh
That rxvt works fine for copying and pasting. (I tried copy/paste
to/from Notepad.)
Now, from a DOS box, run
sh
or
bash --norc --noprofile
and then from the shell prompt, start two copies of rxvt:
rxvt -e /bin/sh &
rxvt -e /bin/sh &
Neither of those rxvt windows will copy/paste to the Windows
clipboard. But, they will copy/paste between one another.
Now, from one of those rxvt windows, start another two rxvt windows:
rxvt -e /bin/sh &
rxvt -e /bin/sh &
Neither of those two new windows can copy/paste with Windows
clipboard or with the previously started two windows, but they can
copy/paste between one another.
One other observation. If I start rxvt directly from a DOS box, and
then start additional rxvt windows from the first rxvt window, all
windows can copy/paste with the Windows clipboard and between one
another.
David