From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Roche Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: [22.2.1] problems with text copy/paste emacs <-> firefox Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:34:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20090717173438.1B6DC14084B3F@cedar.isis.unc.edu> Reply-To: Tom Roche , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247852504 22272 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2009 17:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:41:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 17 19:41:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MRrRA-0006IS-SV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:41:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRrRA-0004Nb-8l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:41:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRrM9-0002La-JB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRrM5-0002JS-Be for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40998 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRrM5-0002JE-1j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from cedar.isis.unc.edu ([152.2.3.72]:9835) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRrM4-0002GH-PB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: by cedar.isis.unc.edu (Postfix, from userid 155088) id 1B6DC14084B3F; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:34:37 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66177 Archived-At: summary: Emacs can't paste to firefox--much less often firefox can't paste to emacs--on fresh install of xubuntu 9.04, emacs 22.2.1, firefox 3.5. How to fix/debug? details: Apologies if this should go to bug-gnu-emacs (but it may be a configuration problem) or if it's a FAQ (but my searches haven't found it): please let me know if this forum is in/appropriate, and feel free to reply directly to me as well as to list. About a week ago I used wubi to install xubuntu 9.04 on a laptop that has been running winxp sp3 with cygwin. Cygwin, xubuntu, and winXP are all up-to-date patchwise. Emacs on cygwin is version=22.4.1 and emacs on xubuntu is version 22.2.1, so it was relatively easy to setup mounts and symlinks to allow the xubuntu emacs to use the same ~/.emacs.d/* et al as the cygwin emacs. (Problems there involve bookmarks and desktop, about which I'll post separately.) The main problem I'm having on xubuntu is a complete (or at least very frequent) inability to copy text from emacs to firefox-3.5. I have not observed problems copying text from emacs to the terminal, or to other Xfce apps; similarly I have not observed problems copying from other apps to firefox. Occasionally I also observed problems copying text from firefox to emacs, but those are comparatively rare. (There might also be problems copying text from firefox to other applications, but I almost never copy from firefox to anything other than emacs.) By contrast, I almost never have these problems with copy/paste between cygwin emacs, cygwin X, and win32 firefox; when I do, they seem to be symmetrical. (I.e. pasting emacs -> firefox seems to fail about as often as pasting firefox -> emacs, and both probabilities are low.) Your suggestions regarding fixing and debugging this problem (including better places to seek help) are appreciated. I'm not sure if it's a problem with emacs, firefox, GTK, X or what. HTH, Tom Roche