Re: PRIMARY selection doesn't work

[Michael Kifer]

> > 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?

Nothing gets pasted.

> 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.)

I think about 2-3 weeks ago.


> > This is all happening under Gnome 1.0 in Redhat 6.1.
> 
> Did anything change in your system setup since selections worked last
> time?

No, nothing changed in the system whatsoever.

thanks
mk