1. run X gui emacs 2. install ~xclip~ package 3. ~M-x xclip-mode~ 4. ~M-x server-start~ 5. ~(kill-new "adaf")~ 6. run ~emacsclient -nw~ from terminal. 7. ~(kill-new "sss")~ Emacs freezes. Configuration used: (setq save-interprogram-paste-before-kill t) (require 'package) (let* ((no-ssl (and (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos)) ;; add melpa repo: either through ssl or non-ssl. (not (gnutls-available-p)))) (url (concat (if no-ssl "http" "https") "://melpa.org/packages/"))) (add-to-list 'package-archives (cons "melpa" url) t)) (package-initialize) (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(package-selected-packages (quote (xclip)))) (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. ) `save-interprogram-paste-before-kill' makes extra action: current value X clipboard is stored to kill-ring, before new value is put there. I use xclip commandline tool to talk to X clipboard from emacs. In GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30) of 2018-04-28 built on wla-64 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000 System Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Configured using: 'configure --with-xwidgets --with-x-toolkit=gtk3' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XWIDGETS Important settings: value of $LC_MONETARY: pl_PL.UTF-8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: pl_PL.UTF-8 value of $LC_TIME: pl_PL.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: xclip-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Xclip mode enabled You can run the command ‘xclip-mode’ with M-x xc RET Xclip mode enabled user-error: Beginning of history; no preceding item "aaa" When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0 Waiting for process to die...done Quit funcall-interactively: End of buffer Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epg gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils term/xterm xterm server cus-start cus-load xclip finder-inf package epg-config seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode easymenu cconv cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting xwidget-internal move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 223260 11365) (symbols 48 26193 0) (miscs 40 103 93) (strings 32 58202 20290) (string-bytes 1 1400022) (vectors 16 19159) (vector-slots 8 536861 4288) (floats 8 202 564) (intervals 56 246 0) (buffers 976 19))