Re: emacs 24 and vnc not working

[Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>]

On Aug 9, 2012, at 10:57 AM, arenson9@gmail.com wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 8:59:24 PM UTC-4, Perry Smith wrote:
>> Can we please bring back cut buffer support?  That is what I need.> 
> 
> 
> I was able to copy from Win7 to an emacs window until I upgraded RealVNC. Now it fails and I don't know if it's because there's some setting on RealVNC I need to choose or something else is going on.

Which version of emacs?  I think cut buffers was removed in version 24 so any version before 24 would be using cut buffers and new VNC's use selection.

I was encouraged by a friend to switch from the older vnc's to a purchased copy of RealVNC for AIX.  $50 a year I believe.  I'm still using the trail key.

At this point, using the new (not open source) RealVNC server, I can copy and paste (both directions) from a Mac app to Emacs 24.  I can not presently copy from the old xterm to emacs 24 but I am pretty sure that is a setting that needs to change.  I have not tried emacs 22 displayed in the new RealVNC window.  I can try that tomorrow and report back.

But, should this be required?  Should users be required to go use non open source code just to get their emacs to behave right?

I still would like to see cut buffers added back in to the standard distribution.  I'm also wondering if the various boolean flags could not be better auto configured by detecting the level of X11 server emacs is running on.

Thank you,
Perry