GNU bug report logs - #17172
24.3.50; Timeouts when pasting from mouse

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee <at> linaro.org>

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 13:40:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: moreinfo, patch

Merged with 16737, 17026, 17101, 19320, 20283

Found in versions 24.3.50, 24.4, 25.0.50

Done: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #37 received at 17172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
Cc: "17172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <17172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#17172: 24.3.50; Timeouts when pasting from mouse
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:53:27 +0200
Hello.

> FWIW, there's some info in bug#16737 which looks very much like a
> duplicate of this one (I tried merging them but I got an error because
> their importance is different). Could you have a look ? In particular I
> mentionned there:
>> Whenever I eval (x-get-selection 'SECONDARY) (or 'PRIMARY or
>> 'CLIPBOARD, for that matter), it hangs for a few seconds and then
>> throws "Timed out waiting for reply from selection owner". No matter
>> what is in that selection, even if it is empty.

How do you determine "empty"?  If there is no selection owner, 
XConvertSelection should say so at once, and there would be no timeout.

> Hopefully this answers your question.

It does not.  The most important thing with these selection bugs are:
1) Who owns the selection, i.e. the application copied from?
2) What desktop environment is used?

We seen plenty of bad klipper-like software, i.e. daemons that constantly copy 
selections to themselves so the selected text survives when the application dies.

Your statement of empty selection above suggests that you do run such 
software, possibly without realizing it.  Most KDE users does not know that 
klipper is running.

	Jan D.





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