From: "Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com>
To: Silvio Levy <levy@msri.org>, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: mouseless copying to clipboard
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:35:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BC5672F8AD4C054BAF167C9801500D1A6FBFA791@USSLMMBX003.net.plm.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120113211213.073141810C9@neo.msri.org>
> From: Silvio Levy
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 3:12 PM
> To: Peter Dyballa
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: mouseless copying to clipboard
>
>
> > This variable's name tells you that is specific to exactly one
> windowing
> > system, the X11 Windows System. One should not assume that it is
> > available with other windowing systems (NextStep/Apple, MS) or no
> > windowing system at all.
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> To clarify, I am using X11 with xfce4 as the window manager.
> And as I wrote the whole thing works if I call emacs without -nw,
> but I prefer to run emacs -nw in a gnome-terminal, especially if
> I'm running it on remotely via ssh. (I don't have the option of
> mounting the remote file system locally.)
>
> Silvio
Silvio,
What you are not apparently understanding is that "-nw" means "no window" so even though you are in fact running under X11, you are telling Emacs that it is not. In this mode, none of the "x-" variables have any meaning or purpose.
Cheers,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-13 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-13 21:12 mouseless copying to clipboard Silvio Levy
2012-01-13 21:35 ` Ludwig, Mark [this message]
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2012-01-13 22:57 Silvio Levy
2012-01-13 20:30 Silvio Levy
2012-01-13 21:05 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-01-13 22:17 ` Jay Belanger
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