Subject: bug#8869: Unjustified selection time-out

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:44:53 -0400

> What does
> (x-selection-exists-p 'CLIPBOARD_MANAGER)
> return on your system?

It returns t.

>> Or maybe your delay is much longer than what is used by
>> other applications.
> Emacs uses 20s delay by default (x-selection-timeout), qt/kde and gtk/gnome
> apps are about 10s (estimated by watching them on my system, didn't dig the
> exact timeout figure from their sources)

I don't actually know which application other than Emacs implements this
protocol, but gnome-terminal exits in less than 1s, same for Firefox
(well, it might take a bit more than 1s for Firefox, but it's still
pretty close).

        Stefan