bug#58533: 29.0.50; copy/paste from emacs into abrowser stops working after some time

bug#58533: 29.0.50; copy/paste from emacs into abrowser stops working after some time

[Ian Kelling]

After some unknown amount of time of starting emacs and abrowser, maybe
an hour or more, when I copy from emacs and paste into abrowser, nothing
is pasted, as if there is nothing in the copy buffer. But I can still
paste into other programs, like a terminal. Then if I copy out of the
terminal, I can paste that into abrowser.

Abrowser is a lightly modified derivative of firefox, I'm using version
105.0.2 (this corresponds to the same firefox version).

My coworker greg experienced the same problem today, so I know this
isn't just my system.

I'm happy to run commands that might help with debugging this if someone
will suggest some.

In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
 3.24.33, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2022-09-23 built on kd
Repository revision: dc5c8274409fe37199fa20659b55a40b1e47928a
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101003
System Description: Trisquel GNU/Linux Aramo (11.0)

Configured using:
 'configure 'CFLAGS=-g3 -Og''

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Load-path shadows:
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bug#58533: 29.0.50; copy/paste from emacs into abrowser stops working after some time

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org> writes:

> After some unknown amount of time of starting emacs and abrowser, maybe
> an hour or more, when I copy from emacs and paste into abrowser, nothing
> is pasted, as if there is nothing in the copy buffer. But I can still
> paste into other programs, like a terminal. Then if I copy out of the
> terminal, I can paste that into abrowser.
>
> Abrowser is a lightly modified derivative of firefox, I'm using version
> 105.0.2 (this corresponds to the same firefox version).
>
> My coworker greg experienced the same problem today, so I know this
> isn't just my system.
>
> I'm happy to run commands that might help with debugging this if someone
> will suggest some.

Could you instead build Emacs with:

  #define TRACE_SELECTION

added to the top of xselect.c, and show what is printed by Emacs once
you fail to copy text into abrowser?

Thanks.

bug#58533: 29.0.50; copy/paste from emacs into abrowser stops working after some time

[Stefan Kangas]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org> writes:
>
>> After some unknown amount of time of starting emacs and abrowser, maybe
>> an hour or more, when I copy from emacs and paste into abrowser, nothing
>> is pasted, as if there is nothing in the copy buffer. But I can still
>> paste into other programs, like a terminal. Then if I copy out of the
>> terminal, I can paste that into abrowser.
>>
>> Abrowser is a lightly modified derivative of firefox, I'm using version
>> 105.0.2 (this corresponds to the same firefox version).
>>
>> My coworker greg experienced the same problem today, so I know this
>> isn't just my system.
>>
>> I'm happy to run commands that might help with debugging this if someone
>> will suggest some.
>
> Could you instead build Emacs with:
>
>   #define TRACE_SELECTION
>
> added to the top of xselect.c, and show what is printed by Emacs once
> you fail to copy text into abrowser?
>
> Thanks.

More information was requested, but none was given within 4 weeks, so
I'm closing this bug.  If this is still an issue, please reply to this
email (use "Reply to all" in your email client) and we can reopen the
bug report.