From: snooze button <snooze-button@riseup.net>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: 73830@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:29:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55d9e3ea-b2b3-4612-b9ab-67729d85eaab@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sesvr4li.fsf@yahoo.com>
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On 17/10/2024 1:49, Po Lu wrote:
>> Why does waiting work around the problem?
> Because it takes time for X clipboard managers to respond to selection
> ownership changes and to complete reading from other programs'
> selections.
>
> Not a bug, sorry.
Thanks for the explanation, and no need to apologise!
For those of us wanting to read more on this, I dug around a bit and
found some explanations
here https://github.com/jhunt/xclipd,
here https://jameshunt.us/writings/x11-clipboard-management-foibles/,
and here
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2017-04-02/0/POSTING-en.html
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2024-10-15 18:04 ` bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections libreville
2024-10-16 19:42 ` libreville
2024-10-16 21:54 ` Jeremy Bryant via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-16 23:49 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-17 11:29 ` snooze button [this message]
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