From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Timed out waiting for property-notify event" on RealVNC 4.X Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:29:46 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <17489.6150.795732.876588@chls308.ch.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146238301 15057 80.91.229.2 (28 Apr 2006 15:31:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:31:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 28 17:31:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZUw8-0004kh-Mf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:31:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZUw8-0002Mh-2K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:31:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FZUvv-0002LY-Jg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FZUvv-0002LG-2L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZUvu-0002L6-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FZUz4-0006lA-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:34:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FZUvf-0004fa-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:30:47 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:30:47 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:30:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) In-Reply-To: <17489.6150.795732.876588@chls308.ch.intel.com> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53555 Archived-At: 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