From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 46704@debbugs.gnu.org, Parvesh Monu <parvesh.dhullmonu@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 09:21:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wndcw2nr.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmj4vk0w.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 19 Jun 2022 15:51:27 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> I'm not sure, but doesn't that sound quite natural? If you don't have
>> an X window open, then you can't talk to the X server, so you can't
>> access the clipboard, either.
Actually, that's not quite correct: Emacs can talk to the X server as
long as the terminal object remains available, but there is no way for
_other_ clients to ask for the contents of Emacs's selections if it
doesn't have at least one open frame that can be used as the owner for
the selection(s).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-20 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-22 8:37 bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running Parvesh Monu
2021-02-22 14:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 15:52 ` Parvesh Monu
2022-06-19 13:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 1:21 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
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