Re: "Timed out waiting for property-notify event" on RealVNC 4.X

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Andrew M. Scott wrote:
> PROBLEM:
> 
> Emacs "Timed out waiting for property-notify event" on RealVNC 4.X
> vncconfig when a large (> 2.5MB) portion of text is kill-ring-save(d).
> 
> Unfortunately, the EDA tool ascii log files we deal with are regularly
> larger than 2.5MB.
> 
> Our use model is to run VNC viewer on one OS (e.g. WindowsXP Pro) and
> run the EDA tools, Emacs, vncserver and vnconfig binaries on gnu/linux
> platforms. 
> 
> I had not problem editing the same testcase in one vim-6.3 editor
> session and copying the file contents and pasting into another vim-6.3
> invocation, in the same VNC session.
...
> WORKAROUNDS/REMEDIES:
> 
> 1. Is there a way that GNU Emacs can be made more "tolerant" of the 
>    "Emacs being flooded with selection requests" issue mentioned in
>    etc/PROBLEMS for klipper? (I'm assuming at this point that the
>    this is the problem is the same for vncconfig).
> 
>    I'm a gdb, C, and X11 programming novice. I'll need explicit
>    instructions if there is any debugging assistance I can provide to
>    narrow the problem.
> 
> 2. Killing vncconfig 4.X isn't really a solution to my general need
>    for cut/paste support between apps within/between VNC sessions,
>    clients and/or Microsoft Windows apps.

Copy-and-pasting the entire content of each file is not really a
solution for file sharing between your GNU/Linux and Windows platforms.
Why not run Samba on the GNU/Linux machine?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Sr. Software Engineer, IHS