bug#56573: 29.0.50; Cannot yank any more from X selection

bug#56573: 29.0.50; Cannot yank any more from X selection

[Jean Louis]

I am observing that what I mark with mouse in XTerm I cannot any more
paste into Emacs by using M-y. Let us say, it worked always without
problems. Recently, like last month, I am observing that it does not
work always.

But now I observe I cannot at all paste it into minibuffer.



In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 12, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.17.6, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2022-07-13 built on protected.rcdrun.com
Repository revision: 113a6a0a885c8bfb1f3c75a8a985a73686662113
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101003
System Description: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

Configured using:
 'configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid'

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY
PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
WEBP X11 XAW3D XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM LUCID ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=exwm-xim
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  show-paren-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
  line-number-mode: t
  indent-tabs-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired
dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068
epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date subr-x mm-decode
mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader
cl-loaddefs cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
mail-prsvr mail-utils rmc iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric
uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel
term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image
regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode
prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu
timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core
term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic
indonesian philippine 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
composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs
faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5
base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap
hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2
dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo x-toolkit
xinput2 x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 40669 8402)
 (symbols 48 5609 3)
 (strings 32 15443 1855)
 (string-bytes 1 479467)
 (vectors 16 10343)
 (vector-slots 8 157429 10555)
 (floats 8 24 21)
 (intervals 56 263 0)
 (buffers 992 11))

-- 
Jean

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bug#56573: 29.0.50; Cannot yank any more from X selection

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> I am observing that what I mark with mouse in XTerm I cannot any more
> paste into Emacs by using M-y. Let us say, it worked always without
> problems. Recently, like last month, I am observing that it does not
> work always.
>
> But now I observe I cannot at all paste it into minibuffer.

Do you have

	(setq select-enable-primary t)
	(setq select-enable-clipboard nil)

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bug#56573: 29.0.50; Cannot yank any more from X selection

[Jean Louis]

* Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> [2022-07-15 15:28]:
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> 
> > I am observing that what I mark with mouse in XTerm I cannot any more
> > paste into Emacs by using M-y. Let us say, it worked always without
> > problems. Recently, like last month, I am observing that it does not
> > work always.
> >
> > But now I observe I cannot at all paste it into minibuffer.
> 
> Do you have
> 
> 	(setq select-enable-primary t)
> 	(setq select-enable-clipboard nil)

Yes, I have it. When I start Emacs it starts working normally, after a
while, it loses itself. It does not work.

I mark text in XTerm and try to insert with third mouse button, even
that does not work. Trying to insert in minibuffer becomes impossible.

But then again, it comes sometimes again, and starts working.

It is hard to find out under which conditions it stops working. But
then it becomes so annoying as it gives problems in work.

-- 
Jean

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bug#56573: 29.0.50; Cannot yank any more from X selection

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> Yes, I have it. When I start Emacs it starts working normally, after a
> while, it loses itself. It does not work.
>
> I mark text in XTerm and try to insert with third mouse button, even
> that does not work. Trying to insert in minibuffer becomes impossible.

The third mouse button doesn't insert anything by default.

> But then again, it comes sometimes again, and starts working.
>
> It is hard to find out under which conditions it stops working. But
> then it becomes so annoying as it gives problems in work.

You don't happen to have a clipboard manager or something running?
Those can confuse things.

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bug#56573: 29.0.50; Cannot yank any more from X selection

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

LI> The third mouse button doesn't insert anything by default.

his third button reference was presumably to the middle button.

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

bug#56573: 29.0.50; Cannot yank any more from X selection

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:

> LI> The third mouse button doesn't insert anything by default.
>
> his third button reference was presumably to the middle button.

Perhaps Jean can clarify.  (That button is called `mouse-2' in Emacs, so
it'd be odd to refer to the middle button as "the third button".)

bug#56573: 29.0.50; Cannot yank any more from X selection

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Perhaps Jean can clarify.  (That button is called `mouse-2' in Emacs, so
> it'd be odd to refer to the middle button as "the third button".)

This was four weeks ago, so it sounds like we won't be making further
progress here, and I'm therefore closing this bug report.