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26.3; Stuck on saving "Clipboard to x clipboard Manager"

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Sarthak Adhikari <adhikari.sarthak <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 42152 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42152: 26.3; Stuck on saving "Clipboard to x clipboard Manager"
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:40:02 -0700

Sarthak Adhikari <adhikari.sarthak <at> gmail.com> writes:

> In the emacs -Q window, I did the following:
> 1) Type the text "asd"
> 2) C-a to set the marker at the first character
> 3) C-e  to set the marker till the last character
> 4) C-w to kill the region
> 5) C-x C-c to exit emacs
>
> After performing step 5, my emacs editor displays "Saving clipboard to X Clipboard manager..." and stops responding. I have to
> manually perform a "kill -9" from the terminal to quit emacs if it stops responding this way.
>
> My init.el only has one entry:
> (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
>
> Killing text from emacs and pasting in on other applications(for eg: Chrome) works fine. The problem only occurs when I try to exit
> emacs and the problem only occurs on those sessions in which I had killed text from within emacs.

I'm unable to reproduce this here.

It sounds strange to me that no one else have seen such a major bug in
such basic functionality.  Could there be something peculiar in your
setup that is causing this?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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