Subject: Re: bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: snooze button <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:38:08 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:29:38 +0200
> From: snooze button <[email-masked]>
> 
> On 17/10/2024 1:49, Po Lu wrote:
> 
>  Why does waiting work around the problem?
> 
> Because it takes time for X clipboard managers to respond to selection
> ownership changes and to complete reading from other programs'
> selections.
> 
> Not a bug, sorry.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation, and no need to apologise!
> 
> For those of us wanting to read more on this, I dug around a bit and found some explanations
> 
> here https://github.com/jhunt/xclipd,
> 
> here https://jameshunt.us/writings/x11-clipboard-management-foibles/,
> 
> and here https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2017-04-02/0/POSTING-en.html

It sounds like there's nothing we can do here, so I'm now closing this
bug.