From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [22.2.1] problems with text copy/paste emacs <-> firefox Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:45:03 +0200 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <878win9mj4.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <20090717173438.1B6DC14084B3F@cedar.isis.unc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247856759 2319 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2009 18:52:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:52:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 17 20:52:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MRsXo-0001pJ-6I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:52:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36869 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRsXn-00073D-HA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRsX4-0006tq-4P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:51:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRsWz-0006qx-1J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:51:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44215 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRsWy-0006qo-Qc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57700 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRsWx-0007Xt-VA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MRsWv-0006X0-8x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:51:37 +0000 Original-Received: from 194.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:51:37 +0000 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 194.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:51:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 57 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEUHAwNfJRBVTESlTym0 RB/OwKFivhZqAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAABeElE QVQ4y3VTW47CMAyMwwUyTfYfUvG/wfC/ET4B0t7/KmsHurRgXFVVPRm/xglhsRj2+npW98G3+Amp tS5BXxl3SqzcXGRuEyf7n5lPA9jXetNPRhE7EJkzfz8YWnIgBSwW95TK4H79/t4GINKNADWj4PgA DiJX/ZxFDzDXeb4oYMw7kNUvyMzcaj3ioICG4hCKEShkPpwQ49Q05nnkGAQLDFDdExjm0qpowBYA Wi61bDlFU1GW0WbY2dSJYX5ZD2S0AiZL+rPyE19TpMzP2IvNWly+NkuWNgD4pO2oL73IQXoSyVX2 NHna7tgadWRXoCdvf2guqEcvGHqZwE520iRD0/QCYiiTE+U21w1Qxvg6iSp9fbIiDCnSAelDkCVF Vn+HekqXzRybwJ40xF4DMRG6SWGK9G1lYzHSxLYEm05GWbpJCB6A9tb9A3BGn2XdwJbS/WuInj74 4QNF8sVFdP3vl+5tgYp4Ev7fyrfFMkXgElDgV4uV/w8TWEeLCIGJ/AAAACV0RVh0Y3JlYXRlLWRh dGUAMjAwOC0wNS0zMVQyMjoxNDoyMiswMjowMM7uH/IAAAARdEVYdGpwZWc6Y29sb3JzcGFjZQAy LHVVnwAAACB0RVh0anBlZzpzYW1wbGluZy1mYWN0b3IAMngyLDF4MSwxeDFJ+qa0AAAAJXRFWHRt b2RpZnktZGF0ZQAyMDA3LTEwLTI4VDE3OjA4OjQ4KzAxOjAwhqNSRgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wVxFt8ElSiEPG43pDCbr8c0Ex74= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:66181 Archived-At: Hi, try that: ,----[ Add this to .emacs ] | (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t) | (setq interprogram-paste-function 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value) `---- Tom Roche writes: > summary: > > Emacs can't paste to firefox--much less often firefox can't paste to > emacs--on fresh install of xubuntu 9.04, emacs 22.2.1, firefox 3.5. > How to fix/debug? > > details: > > Apologies if this should go to bug-gnu-emacs (but it may be a > configuration problem) or if it's a FAQ (but my searches haven't found > it): please let me know if this forum is in/appropriate, and feel free > to reply directly to me as well as to list. > > About a week ago I used wubi to install xubuntu 9.04 on a laptop that > has been running winxp sp3 with cygwin. Cygwin, xubuntu, and winXP are > all up-to-date patchwise. Emacs on cygwin is version=22.4.1 and emacs > on xubuntu is version 22.2.1, so it was relatively easy to setup > mounts and symlinks to allow the xubuntu emacs to use the same > ~/.emacs.d/* et al as the cygwin emacs. (Problems there involve > bookmarks and desktop, about which I'll post separately.) > > The main problem I'm having on xubuntu is a complete (or at least very > frequent) inability to copy text from emacs to firefox-3.5. I have not > observed problems copying text from emacs to the terminal, or to other > Xfce apps; similarly I have not observed problems copying from other > apps to firefox. Occasionally I also observed problems copying text > from firefox to emacs, but those are comparatively rare. (There might > also be problems copying text from firefox to other applications, but > I almost never copy from firefox to anything other than emacs.) > > By contrast, I almost never have these problems with copy/paste > between cygwin emacs, cygwin X, and win32 firefox; when I do, they > seem to be symmetrical. (I.e. pasting emacs -> firefox seems to fail > about as often as pasting firefox -> emacs, and both probabilities are > low.) > > Your suggestions regarding fixing and debugging this problem > (including better places to seek help) are appreciated. I'm not sure > if it's a problem with emacs, firefox, GTK, X or what. > > HTH, Tom Roche > > > -- A + Thierry Volpiatto Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France