Re: Problems with KDE and Clipboard.

[Emanuel Berg]

alexandre.bustico@gmail.com writes:

> After a year, did you resolve your problem ? I'am
> interested since still suffering from the same
> problem.

I spent so much time on this acursed X clipboard/Emacs
kill ring many years ago. Half of it worked, the other
half didn't. It always works to insert the X clipboard
at point (and then move point to the end of the
insertion). But to push an item to the X clipboard,
that process never completes. And I don't understand
that because that exact line works in the shell, in a
shell function, and in a script... (though not if the
script is called from Emacs). I'm absolutely sure: it
is a mystery.

(defun insert-X-clipboard ()
  (interactive)
  ;; 1 below = into current buffer
  (shell-command "xclip -d :0 -selection clipboard -o" 1)
  (goto-char (mark)) )

(defun set-X-clipboard ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((str (shell-quote-argument
              (string-make-unibyte (car kill-ring)) ))
        (cmd "xclip -d :0 -selection clipboard") )
    (shell-command (format "echo %s | %s" str cmd)) ))

(insert-X-clipboard) ; works
(set-X-clipboard)    ; hangs

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