From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>, 47642@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47642: 28.0.50; (error "Selection owner couldn't convert" UTF8_STRING)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:03:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0p73e1n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im4ryfqn.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:11:28 +0200")
>> after copying an image in Gimp, then exiting Gimp, and trying to paste
>> in Emacs.
>
> I was unable to reproduce that (on Debian/bullseye) -- I just get nil
> back from
>
> (x-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD 'UTF8_STRING nil nil)
>
> no matter whether Gimp is running or not (after choosing Edit -> Copy).
Here is a complete test case with 100% reproducibility:
1. In GIMP 2.10.18 on Ubuntu create a new image
2. Select a rectangle
3. Copy with Ctrl+C or Edit -> Copy
4. in 'emacs -Q' version 28, GTK+ version 3.24.20
5. evaluating (x-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD 'UTF8_STRING nil nil)
returns nil
6. quit Gimp
7. evaluate the same (x-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD 'UTF8_STRING nil nil)
8. it fails with
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Selection owner couldn't convert" UTF8_STRING)
x-get-selection-internal(CLIPBOARD UTF8_STRING nil nil)
(progn (x-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD 'UTF8_STRING nil nil))
eval((progn (x-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD 'UTF8_STRING nil nil)) t)
elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
eval-last-sexp(nil)
funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
command-execute(eval-last-sexp)
This is strange since there is no owner anymore, the selection owner was closed.
It's a big problem for me because I customized
save-interprogram-paste-before-kill to t, and I can't
use copy/paste in Emacs anymore after this error,
because I raises the same error on trying to copy a new text,
so even can't overwrite the old unavailable selection
with a new one in Emacs. Then I need to switch to
some other app, copy some text from it to the clipboard,
that fixes the broken state of copy/paste in Emacs.
> In any case -- I'm not sure there's anything we can do on the Emacs
> side... except perhaps change the error message? "Couldn't convert"
> isn't really informative. "Couldn't get selection from selection
> owner", perhaps?
I wonder why this error should be raised at all
instead of just returning nil?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-12 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 17:51 bug#47642: 28.0.50; (error "Selection owner couldn't convert" UTF8_STRING) Jean Louis
2021-04-07 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-13 5:37 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-07 19:58 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-12 10:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-12 16:03 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-04-13 7:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-13 16:20 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-14 18:23 ` Juri Linkov
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