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Help! I work on a PC running Windows XP. I have installed the Hummingbird Suite Exceed 10.0. I launch 4 Xconfig sessions based on different *.cfg files along with the standard Xserver Xconfig (Exceed.cfg). I do this because I need to run graphical apps in separate windows. In any event, everything works great, however, it appears the Microsoft Clipboard and the Exceed clipboard are constantly battle for owership. I receive annoying "Unable to obtain clipboard ownership" pop-up windows, for which I have to acknowledge by select the single option "OK" button. This annoying pop-up window usually pops up as a window behind other windows. If I don't acknowledge it, the Xconfig window application freezes. Extremely annoying.

I checked the humming bird web site, and their solution (see below) does not work for me or others. Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening?

Hummingbird (unhelpful) Solution:

To fix this error message, please follow these steps:

Open Xconfig
Select "X Selection" or "Copy and Paste and X Selection"
disable "Copy on Focus Loss"
Save your Xconfig settings
Restart the Exceed X server and your application.
When you copy into the buffer, you will no longer experience the error message.
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Tk_ClipboardClear(3)					       Tk Library Procedures					      Tk_ClipboardClear(3)

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NAME
Tk_ClipboardClear, Tk_ClipboardAppend - Manage the clipboard SYNOPSIS
#include <tk.h> int Tk_ClipboardClear(interp, tkwin) int Tk_ClipboardAppend(interp, tkwin, target, format, buffer) ARGUMENTS
Tcl_Interp *interp (in) Interpreter to use for reporting errors. Tk_Window tkwin (in) Window that determines which display's clipboard to manipulate. Atom target (in) Conversion type for this clipboard item; has same meaning as target argument to Tk_CreateSelHandler. Atom format (in) Representation to use when data is retrieved; has same meaning as format argument to Tk_CreateSel- Handler. char *buffer (in) Null terminated string containing the data to be appended to the clipboard. _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
These two procedures manage the clipboard for Tk. The clipboard is typically managed by calling Tk_ClipboardClear once, then calling Tk_ClipboardAppend to add data for any number of targets. Tk_ClipboardClear claims the CLIPBOARD selection and frees any data items previously stored on the clipboard in this application. It nor- mally returns TCL_OK, but if an error occurs it returns TCL_ERROR and leaves an error message in interp->result. Tk_ClipboardClear must be called before a sequence of Tk_ClipboardAppend calls can be issued. Tk_ClipboardAppend appends a buffer of data to the clipboard. The first buffer for a given target determines the format for that target. Any successive appends for that target must have the same format or an error will be returned. Tk_ClipboardAppend returns TCL_OK if the buffer is successfully copied onto the clipboard. If the clipboard is not currently owned by the application, either because Tk_Clipboard- Clear has not been called or because ownership of the clipboard has changed since the last call to Tk_ClipboardClear, Tk_ClipboardAppend returns TCL_ERROR and leaves an error message in interp->result. In order to guarantee atomicity, no event handling should occur between Tk_ClipboardClear and the following Tk_ClipboardAppend calls (oth- erwise someone could retrieve a partially completed clipboard or claim ownership away from this application). Tk_ClipboardClear may invoke callbacks, including arbitrary Tcl scripts, as a result of losing the CLIPBOARD selection, so any calling function should take care to be reentrant at the point Tk_ClipboardClear is invoked. KEYWORDS
append, clipboard, clear, format, type Tk 4.0 Tk_ClipboardClear(3)