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

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

[Terrence Brannon]

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/8f9ceafe-3429-4df2-8fcb-0ea9aa65589c

Please help me!

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

[Barry Margolin]

In article 
<37de43b3-a4a3-4121-b056-802fd9c4727c@m21g2000vbr.googlegroups.com>,
 Terrence Brannon <metaperl@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/8f9ceafe-
>     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?

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: copy/paste from x11 Emacs fails but other x11 programs do just fine

[Terrence Brannon]

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.