Subject: Re: bug#8869: Unjustified selection time-out

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:03:56 -0400

David De La Harpe Golden <[email-masked]> writes:

>> - standard Debian testing Gnome setup.
>> - killall metacity.
>> - start good'ol ctwm, emacs, and xterm.
>
> Well, if you're literally doing that, that will tend to leave bits of
> gnome hanging about.

Yeah, though that doesn't explain why "no other application seems to
exhibit such a delay when exiting".  Plenty of other applications ought
to be supporting the clipboard manager spec these days.

There are various possible workarounds, e.g. we could have
x_clipboard_manager_save_frame set x-select-enable-clipboard-manager to
nil if it hits a timeout, so that the delay at least won't recur in the
same session.  But it wouldn't be wise to implement them until we get a
few more details about the actual failure case.