From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PRIMARY selection doesn't work Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:32:46 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200204121632.MAA24359@sbcs.cs.sunysb.edu> References: <2950-Fri12Apr2002115502+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018629557 12906 127.0.0.1 (12 Apr 2002 16:39:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:39:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16w44z-0003M3-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:39:17 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16w4LK-0004Ga-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:56:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16w44o-0001jT-00; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from sbcs.cs.sunysb.edu ([130.245.1.15]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16w42T-0001Ss-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: from sbkifer (sbkifer [130.245.1.35]) by sbcs.cs.sunysb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA24359; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:32:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: ""Eli Zaretskii"" of Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:55:02 +0300 <2950-Fri12Apr2002115502+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2587 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2587 > > From: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer) > > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:17:53 -0400 > > > > As of about 2 weeks ago when I updated emacs from CVS, > > (x-get-selection-internal 'PRIMARY 'STRING) > > stopped working. > > To reproduce, just start emacs -q and select something. > > Then try to paste in an xterm window. > > Please tell what happens when you try both calling > x-get-selection-internal and pasting into xterm. Do you get garbage > or nothing at all? Nothing gets pasted. > Also, can you recall when was the previous time you resynced with the > CVS? (I'm trying to figure out what changes could have caused this.) I think about 2-3 weeks ago. > > This is all happening under Gnome 1.0 in Redhat 6.1. > > Did anything change in your system setup since selections worked last > time? No, nothing changed in the system whatsoever. thanks mk