GNU bug report logs - #13486
24.2.92: large X-selections: timed out waiting for property notify event

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Charles Rendleman <carendle <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:24:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.2.92

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 13486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Charles Rendleman <carendle <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13486: 24.2.92: large X-selections: timed out waiting for
	property notify event
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:41:10 +0800

Charles Rendleman <carendle <at> gmail.com> writes:

> http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/, a packaging of 'mainly
> from the X.org source code with patches applied'.

Ah, so you are running Emacs through a remote X connection.  That is the
reason for the slowdown: the Emacs binary needs to transfer the X
primary selection to the server over the network.

I don't think there's any way to fix this; you will have to customize
`select-active-regions' to nil.
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