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From: snooze button <snooze-button@riseup.net>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: 73830@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:29:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55d9e3ea-b2b3-4612-b9ab-67729d85eaab@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sesvr4li.fsf@yahoo.com>

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On 17/10/2024 1:49, Po Lu wrote:
>> Why does waiting work around the problem?
> Because it takes time for X clipboard managers to respond to selection
> ownership changes and to complete reading from other programs'
> selections.
>
> Not a bug, sorry.

Thanks for the explanation, and no need to apologise!

For those of us wanting to read more on this, I dug around a bit and 
found some explanations

here https://github.com/jhunt/xclipd,

here https://jameshunt.us/writings/x11-clipboard-management-foibles/,

and here 
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2017-04-02/0/POSTING-en.html


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      reply	other threads:[~2024-10-17 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4a2f64e201951a525ab56fab135c4777@riseup.net>
2024-10-15 18:04 ` bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections libreville
2024-10-16 19:42   ` libreville
2024-10-16 21:54     ` Jeremy Bryant via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-16 23:49     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-17 11:29       ` snooze button [this message]

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