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28.0.50; (error "Selection owner couldn't convert" UTF8_STRING)

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 47642 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Subject: bug#47642: 28.0.50; (error "Selection owner couldn't convert" UTF8_STRING)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:11:28 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> after copying an image in Gimp, then exiting Gimp, and trying to paste
> in Emacs.

I was unable to reproduce that (on Debian/bullseye) -- I just get nil
back from

(x-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD 'UTF8_STRING nil nil)

no matter whether Gimp is running or not (after choosing Edit -> Copy).

In any case -- I'm not sure there's anything we can do on the Emacs
side...  except perhaps change the error message?  "Couldn't convert"
isn't really informative.  "Couldn't get selection from selection
owner", perhaps?

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