Re: Fedora 40 emacs clipboard appending

[tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com>]

Ken Goldman <kgoldnorwalk@gmail.com> writes:

>>>
>>> Fedora moved to installing the PGTK configuration of Emacs by default,
>>> which isn't designed for X servers, of which your VNC server probably is
>>> one.  You should either reinstall a different package (emacs-x11?) or
>>> build Emacs from source.
>> rpm -qa emacs*
>> emacs-filesystem-29.3-5.fc40.noarch
>> emacs-gtk+x11-29.3-5.fc40.x86_64 <<< This one
>> emacs-common-29.3-5.fc40.x86_64
>> emacs-29.3-5.fc40.x86_64
>
> For the record, this is correct.
>
> Aliasing emacs to emacs-gtk+x11 fixed the clipboard.
>

You might want to consider using the ‘alternatives’ package that was
created to support having different programs that perform similar
actions on a single system.

Try the following at a shell prompt:

$ man 8 alternatives

This should display the manual page for ‘alternatives’ if it is
installed in your file system.

If it is installed, then try the ‘--display’ option for the ‘emacs’
group:

$ alternatives --display emacs
emacs - status is auto.
 link currently points to /usr/bin/emacs-29.3
/usr/bin/emacs-29.3-gtk+x11 - priority 75
/usr/bin/emacs-29.3 - priority 80
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/emacs-29.3.

If this works, then try the ‘--config’ option to change the priority:

$ sudo alternatives --config emacs
Swipe your finger across the fingerprint reader

There are 2 programs which provide 'emacs'.

  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
   1           /usr/bin/emacs-29.3-gtk+x11
*+ 2           /usr/bin/emacs-29.3

Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 1

Then use the ‘--display’ option again to confirm the change:

$ alternatives --display emacs
emacs - status is manual.
 link currently points to /usr/bin/emacs-29.3-gtk+x11
/usr/bin/emacs-29.3-gtk+x11 - priority 75
/usr/bin/emacs-29.3 - priority 80
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/emacs-29.3.

Of course, you can use the ‘--config’ option to revert to the default
setting if you have problems with the new configuration.

Here are the first two paragraphs of the ‘Description’ section of ‘man 8
alternatives’ to understand the justification given for the creation of
the ‘alternatives’ package:

DESCRIPTION
       alternatives creates, removes, maintains and displays information about
       the symbolic links comprising the alternatives system. The alternatives
       system  is a reimplementation of the Debian alternatives system. It was
       rewritten primarily to remove the dependence on perl; it is intended to
       be a drop in replacement for Debian's update-dependencies script.  This
       man page is a slightly modified version of the man page from the Debian
       project.

       It  is  possible  for  several  programs fulfilling the same or similar
       functions to be installed on a single system at the same time.  For ex‐
       ample, many systems have several text editors installed at once.   This
       gives choice to the users of a system, allowing each to use a different
       editor, if desired, but makes it difficult for a program to make a good
       choice  of  editor to invoke if the user has not specified a particular
       preference.


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