Re: PRIMARY selection doesn't work

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Michael Kifer)
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:17:53 -0400
> 
> As of about 2 weeks ago when I updated emacs from CVS, 
> (x-get-selection-internal 'PRIMARY 'STRING)
> stopped working.
> To reproduce, just start emacs -q and select something.
> Then try to paste in an xterm window.

Please tell what happens when you try both calling
x-get-selection-internal and pasting into xterm.  Do you get garbage
or nothing at all?

Also, can you recall when was the previous time you resynced with the
CVS?  (I'm trying to figure out what changes could have caused this.)

> This is all happening under Gnome 1.0 in Redhat 6.1.

Did anything change in your system setup since selections worked last
time?