Re: Problems with KDE and Clipboard.

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On Sunday, January 19, 2014 6:37:56 AM UTC-4, alexandr...@gmail.com wrote:
> Le mercredi 26 septembre 2012 14:34:03 UTC+2, Ian Barton a écrit :
> 
>> Since upgrading to Emacs 24, I have been having problems copy/pasting 
>> between Emacs and other X applications. I am using Archlinux with KDE 
>> and my emacs is:
>>
>> GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4)
>>   of 2012-08-28 on shaun
>>
>> Symptoms:
>> When I first start emacs I can copy/paste between something like Chrome 
>> and Emacs without a problem. However, after a while items I select from 
>> Klipper are not pasted into Emacs, but the last item from the Kill ring 
>> gets pasted instead. If I restart Emacs it works as I would expect for a 
>> certain number of copy pastes, but then the problem re-occurs.
>>
>> Ian.
> 
> After a year, did you resolve your problem ? I'am interested since still 
> suffering from the same problem.
> 
> Alexandre

Well, (in a way) I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem. I have it 
with GNU Emacs 24.3.1 on Fedora 19 and Gnome and enquired about it on this 
group on 2013-11-21 ("Intermittent problems with cut/copy and paste (using CUA 
keys) between Emacs and other programs") where I asked how to go about tracking 
down the bug, but got no response to that.

After Emacs has been running for a few days the problem starts to occur and I 
have both the OP's problem of Emacs failing to paste from the system clipboard 
and the reverse problem of Emacs failing to place cut/copied items into the 
system clipboard.

I've found that I don't have to restart Emacs to clear the problem; I can clear 
it (for a while) with a few copy/paste operations within Emacs. Of course that 
barely mitigates the problem.

As I use Emacs to compose emails / news posts that and then have to be pasted 
into web-based news/mail interfaces, this bug is a frequent annoyance.

I'd very much like to hear anyone's suggestions for tracking down the cause of 
the issue.

N. Jackson.