Re: copy/paste from x11 Emacs fails but other x11 programs do just fine

[Terrence Brannon <metaperl@gmail.com>]

On May 19, 1:28 am, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article
> <37de43b3-a4a3-4121-b056-802fd9c47...@m21g2000vbr.googlegroups.com>,
>  Terrence Brannon <metap...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am running an Ubuntu virtual machine (using virtualbox). I hand-
> > compiled GNU Emacs 23.2 and installed it on this viritual machine.
> > The host is a windows xp machine.
>
> > I have no problem with copy/paste from Ubuntu xterm windows or Ubuntu
> > firefox windows to Windows XP. However, all attempts to copy from GNU
> > Emacs with gtk extensions to Windows XP fail.
>
> > This screencast documents the copy/paste behavior for all the attempts
> > (xterm, firefox, emacs):
>
> >    http://www.screencast.com/users/terrence_work/folders/Jing/media/8f9c...
> >     3429-4df2-8fcb-0ea9aa65589c
>
> > Please help me!
>
> Is the problem only when you're copying from Emacs to the host?  Or do
> you also have a problem copying from Emacs to other applications in the
> virtual machine?

- using the x11 selection works from xterm to emacs and vice versa
- copy/paste from Emacs to a Java app (both running on the Linux
virtual machine) fails both ways
- with Firefox on the virtual machine, I can copy in emacs and paste
it into firefox as the x11 selection. I can also copy things in
Firefox and then paste it into Emacs as the x11 selection

so:
1 - there is a problem between emacs and java apps, when they are both
on the virtual machine, as I posted in another  thread (http://
groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/
90900baeba96b2a6#)
2 - Emacs is the only thing having issues copy/pasting from guest
virtual machine to host.