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using one expression to make multiple X selections

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From: snooze button <snooze-button <at> riseup.net>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 73830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:29:38 +0200

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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

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