bug#8760: 24.0.50; Cannot kill emacs after killing text to kill-ring

[David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>]

On 31/05/11 02:15, Suvayu Ali wrote:

> I tried the same steps in a fresh XFCE session without clipman, I
> still get the same results.

That does suggest it's a problem with xfce's default clipboard manager.
They recently reimplemented that. You may still be running an older 
known-buggy one.

> I am not very familiar with the internals
> of XFCE, not sure how the default XFCE clipboard is managed.

There's a clipboard manager hiding inside xfce4-settings-helper.
Please try the following command at the shell to print its version and 
report the results:

xfce4-settings-helper -V

If it's less than 4.8.2, you may have the buggy version. It can cause 
similar problems with other apps too [1]. (That doesn't change the fact 
emacs should be exiting after timing out, of course).

> For some reason I did not get your or Stefan's response despite both of
> you CC'ing me. I downloaded your message from the bug tracker and am
> responding to it so the threading might be screwed up. Its probably a
> Gmail issue.
>

Irritating. FWIW, my mailserver says it successfully handed the mail to 
google. Hopefully this one will reach you less awkwardly.


[1] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7588

"xfce4-settings-4.8.2 contains the gsd clipboard that should resolve 
this bug."