From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8869: Unjustified selection time-out Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:03:56 -0400 Message-ID: <871uyq23w3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <4DF955AF.6080107@harpegolden.net> <4DFA2303.2070304@harpegolden.net> <4DFB98D8.5030204@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308434724 16158 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2011 22:05:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8869@debbugs.gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 19 00:05:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QY3dm-0008L8-LO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:05:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52024 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QY3dl-00017n-MD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36691) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QY3dX-00016K-7v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:05:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QY3dW-0000nA-DC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43353) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QY3dW-0000n6-7v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QY3dW-0006AT-1Y; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:05:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:05:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8869 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8869-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8869.130843464423629 (code B ref 8869); Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:05:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8869) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Jun 2011 22:04:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QY3ca-000694-1L for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:04:04 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.143]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QY3cY-00068a-Gm for 8869@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036226133.central.yale.edu [128.36.226.133]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5IM3uSV000958 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:03:57 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 67D4616041A; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:03:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4DFB98D8.5030204@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:11:36 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.143 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:05:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:47298 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden writes: >> - standard Debian testing Gnome setup. >> - killall metacity. >> - start good'ol ctwm, emacs, and xterm. > > Well, if you're literally doing that, that will tend to leave bits of > gnome hanging about. Yeah, though that doesn't explain why "no other application seems to exhibit such a delay when exiting". Plenty of other applications ought to be supporting the clipboard manager spec these days. There are various possible workarounds, e.g. we could have x_clipboard_manager_save_frame set x-select-enable-clipboard-manager to nil if it hits a timeout, so that the delay at least won't recur in the same session. But it wouldn't be wise to implement them until we get a few more details about the actual failure case.