bug#55992: 29.0.50; Experiencing incorrect synchronization of clipboard

bug#55992: 29.0.50; Experiencing incorrect synchronization of clipboard

[Jean Louis]

I have these settings:

(setq select-enable-clipboard t)
(setq select-enable-primary t)

And I can tell that with recent Emac, development version, I am
experiencing incorrect synchronization of primary selection.

1) Too often I go to XTerm, I mark some words with mouse;

2) Then I switch window to Emacs and try to yank it with C-y

3) Instead of getting words from (1) I can see some previous selection.

4) Sometimes I see this message: "Selection owner couldn’t convert: TIMESTAMP [2 times]"

I did not have these problems before in my work, but I have it
now. Something changed.



In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 8, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.17.6, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2022-06-15 built on protected.rcdrun.com
Repository revision: b090dbdae802b72c6c6de60c61c8487539acf197
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101003
System Description: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

Configured using:
 'configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid'

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY
PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
WEBP X11 XAW3D XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM LUCID ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=exwm-xim
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  indent-tabs-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media rmc puny
dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg
rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047
rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils misearch multi-isearch
vc-filewise vc-rcs log-view easy-mmode pcvs-util bookmark seq gv subr-x
byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv text-property-search pp cl-loaddefs
cl-lib iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook
vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win
term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register
page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select
scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors
frame minibuffer nadvice simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham
georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech
european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript
charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure
cl-preloaded button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window
text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind
inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
cairo x-toolkit xinput2 x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 54565 7728)
 (symbols 48 6792 3)
 (strings 32 19578 1905)
 (string-bytes 1 608856)
 (vectors 16 13182)
 (vector-slots 8 182114 13802)
 (floats 8 24 31)
 (intervals 56 962 0)
 (buffers 992 12))

-- 
Thanks,
Jean Louis

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bug#55992: 29.0.50; Experiencing incorrect synchronization of clipboard

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

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> I have these settings:
>
> (setq select-enable-clipboard t)
> (setq select-enable-primary t)
>
> And I can tell that with recent Emac, development version, I am
> experiencing incorrect synchronization of primary selection.
>
> 1) Too often I go to XTerm, I mark some words with mouse;
>
> 2) Then I switch window to Emacs and try to yank it with C-y
>
> 3) Instead of getting words from (1) I can see some previous selection.
>
> 4) Sometimes I see this message: "Selection owner couldn’t convert: TIMESTAMP [2 times]"
>
> I did not have these problems before in my work, but I have it
> now. Something changed.

Please place a breakpoint on this piece of xselect.c:

      if (there_is_a_selection_owner)
	{
===>	  AUTO_STRING (format, "Selection owner couldn't convert: %s");
	  CALLN (Fmessage, format,

and show a backtrace once it is hit.

Thanks.

bug#55992: 29.0.50; Experiencing incorrect synchronization of clipboard

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Please place a breakpoint on this piece of xselect.c:
>
>       if (there_is_a_selection_owner)
> 	{
> ===>	  AUTO_STRING (format, "Selection owner couldn't convert: %s");
> 	  CALLN (Fmessage, format,
>
> and show a backtrace once it is hit.

This was a month ago, but there was no response, so I guess there's
little chance of there being any progress here, and I'm therefore
closing this bug report.  If progress can be made, please respond to the
debbugs address and we'll reopen.

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