From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kester Clegg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:54:19 +0000 Organization: Rolls Royce UTC, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, UK 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=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074180953 3563 80.91.224.253 (15 Jan 2004 15:35:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:35:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 15 16:35:47 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 1Ah9X9-0000iU-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:35:47 +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 1Ah7CL-0006Kw-PU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:06:09 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!peer1.news.newnet.co.uk!peer1.news.newnet.co.uk!213.18.248.72.MISMATCH!ifl.net!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!server1.netnews.ja.net!news.york.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc310.cs.york.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: pump1.york.ac.uk 1074171258 4630 144.32.40.101 (15 Jan 2004 12:54:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@york.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jan 2004 12:54:18 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zKhitngVXipCwQbg9kFSAVbKcP4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120123 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:16066 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16066 GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri) writes: > KDE & Gnome are not window managers and so they could interfere (i > don't know, I don't need desktops along with other things). > > I'm using WindowMaker since 1995 on Solaris and Linux (that means two > different X11 implementations) and the X clipboard worked in the same > way it worked when I used mwm, twm, fvwm and afterstep before. Well I'm using fvwm2 and emacs does not receive a select n paste from applications like xterms sometimes - something is definitely broken. It seems to just keep what was uppermost in the kill ring and yanks that. -- ************************************************************************ Kester Clegg Dept. of Computer Science, Research Assistant (UTC) University of York, Tel (01904) 43 27 49 email: kester at cs.york.ac.uk ************************************************************************