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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: klipper and *Emacses II
From:       Bradley T Hughes <bhughes () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-07-04 11:48:46
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On Wednesday 04 July 2001 12:11, Pavel Janík wrote:
> Hi,
>
> do you remember the problems with klipper and *Emacses which we
> discussed last month? The head maintainer of GNU Emacs has just changed
> an entry about this problem in etc/PROBLEMS to contain:
>
> ,----
>
> | * Emacs hangs on KDE when a large portion of text is killed.
> |
> | This is caused by a bug in the KDE applet `klipper' which periodically
> | requests the X clipboard contents from applications.  Early versions
> | of klipper don't implement the ICCM protocol for large selections,
> | which leads to Emacs being flooded with selection requests.  After a
> | while, Emacs will print a message:
> |
> |   Timed out waiting for property-notify event
> |
> | A workaround is to not use `klipper'.
>
> `----
>
> Is this a bug in klipper? Please keep me CC:'ed. Thank you.

If klipper doesn't implement the entire protocol for selection, I would 
consider this a bug...

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