>>>> "Paul" == Paul O'Donnell
<odonnellp(a)rogers.com> writes:
Paul> I am unable to cut, copy and paste to or from Xemacs to
Paul> other applications. I am not using C-w, I am using the cut,
Paul> copy and paste selections from the Edit Menu. It was my
Paul> understanding that these use the system clipboard and so
Paul> theoretically it should work. I am not sure if this is a bug
Paul> or not.
Paul> i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
There _is no system clipboard_ in X11. For more information, see
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html.
If you don't want more information, but just want things to work, tell
us _specifically_ (it matters) what is not working and we'll see what
we can come up with. XEmacs can handle it, probably; it's the other
apps that are inflexible.
If you want to try for yourself (and have some hope of dealing with
the next new app you install), here are some hints:
What you can and cannot paste to will be determined by how well the
other applications support the standard X protocols. There are at
least four in common use: the PRIMARY selection, the CLIPBOARD
selection, the Motif clipboard, and the xclipboard client.
The edit menu items use the CLIPBOARD selection. If you are primarily
in a Motif environment, then you should set the variable
`x-selection-strict-motif-ownership' to t, and things should work more
or less, unless your vendor has changed the values of the variables
`interprogram-cut-function' and `interprogram-paste-function'. I
recommend you upgrade; I'm fairly sure that 21.4.8 still had buggy
versions of those functions. However, the basic functionality should
be there; you'll just get weirdness with extra copies in the kill ring
and so on.
If you are not in a Motif environment, then those very likely will not
work at all, as non-Motif applications normally use the PRIMARY
selection to communicate. I can verify this for xterm. Mozilla on
the other hand (at least in the default Debian build) does use the
CLIPBOARD selection. It also grabs the PRIMARY selection. It
undoubtedly grabs the SECONDARY selection and fills up the cut-buffers
(You Do Not Want To Know[tm]) too, just to make really sure. I hate
self-important apps.
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