From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LEE Sau Dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard Date: 15 Jan 2004 22:56:28 +0100 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040111002614.GM6119@luna.mooo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-7 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074270255 15717 80.91.224.253 (16 Jan 2004 16:24:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 16 17:24:02 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AhWlM-0005Aa-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:24:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AhWSc-0004Mx-CV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:04:38 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news-peer0-test!btnet-peer1!btnet!newsr1.ipcore.viaginterkom.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!easynews.net!newsfeed3.easynews.net!newsfeed.ision.net!ision!news.belwue.de!news.uni-freiburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: savona.informatik.uni-freiburg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120158 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16100 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16100 >>>>> "Kester" == Kester Clegg writes: Kester> Well I'm using fvwm2 and emacs does not receive a select n Kester> paste from applications like xterms sometimes - And for a few times when that happens, I try to select&paste between all other X clients, including the affected xterm. Sometimes, I do that with clients running from several remote machines. All of them select&paste among themselves happily. However, whenever I try to paste from any of them into emacs, emacs doesn't do it as expected. It seems to me that emacs doesn't want to take part in the party... until I apply that magic workaround. Kester> something is definitely broken. It seems to just keep what Kester> was uppermost in the kill ring and yanks that. Not sure. I guess Emacs is in some situations unable to properly handle the X11 event which informs it that it has lost the selection. So, it still believes it owns the selection (which is kept as the last item in the kill ring). A paste thus pastes directly from the kill ring, not from the X selection. There is another problem with Emacs and X. I can't remember anymore, as I've already given up and found some way to work around. It's about how Emacs reads and interpret the user's application resources. When a resource is specified in mulitple places, or when a resource name is matched by multiple resource entries specified with wildcards, Emacs takens the wrong one. Again, I'm too lazy to file a bug report. (Don't take me wrong. I did file bug reports a few times for other bugs. I was so impressed that RMS responded me in a few hours with a patch that really fixed the bug!) -- Lee Sau Dan +Z05biGVm-(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee