From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Giraudoux Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: cannot copy clipboard to other applications Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:22:49 +0100 Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E9_de_Franche-Comt=E9?= Message-ID: <458E7119.8080401@univ-fcomte.fr> Reply-To: patrick.giraudoux@univ-fcomte.fr NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166962997 2768 80.91.229.10 (24 Dec 2006 12:23:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 24 13:23:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GySNk-0008I2-K5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:23:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GySNk-0004b4-32 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:23:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GySNV-0004ZN-JB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:22:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GySNQ-0004V3-JO for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:22:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GySNQ-0004Uw-C5 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:22:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.12.242.1] (helo=smtp19.orange.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GySNP-0000PY-MF for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:22:52 -0500 Original-Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1927.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 800DD1C000A8 for ; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:22:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [81.49.134.48] (ADijon-257-1-11-48.w81-49.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.49.134.48]) by mwinf1927.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 550581C00096 for ; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:22:50 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20061224122250348.550581C00096@mwinf1927.orange.fr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061115) Original-To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39885 Archived-At: Dear listers, Strangely, I can copy clipboard from other applications to emacs (eg with gedit C-c and then C-y into emacs) but NOT from emacs to other applications (eg M-w in emacs and then C-v in gedit does not work). Character coding is utf-8. After some googling I replaced the line (setq selection-coding-system 'compount-text-with-extension) with (setq selection-coding-system 'compount-text) in the ~/.emacs file but it did not help. I am using Emacs 21.4.1 on Ubuntu 6.10 Any hint? Patrick