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Re: X window paste takes 12 seconds


From: Perry Smith
Subject: Re: X window paste takes 12 seconds
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 07:44:50 -0600

> On Dec 11, 2015, at 7:27 AM, Ludwig, Mark <ludwig.mark@siemens.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Perry Smith, Thursday, December 10, 2015 6:31 PM
>> 
>> Sometime back I had problems with X and paste when I updated my emacs.  At
>> that point, I purchased a VNC server from Real VNC and started using it and 
>> that
>> mostly solved my issues.
>> 
>> Now with emacs 24.5, I have paste issues again.
>> 
>> I go to an X window being displayed on the same server (I don’t know X
>> terminology precisely) and highlight some text.  With my window manager
>> (motif), that does a copy.
>> 
>> Now, I go to the emacs window (frame) and hit ^Y to paste what I just
>> highlighted.  It does, but it takes up to 12 seconds and during the 12 
>> seconds,
>> emacs is frozen.
>> 
>> emacs is running on AIX 6.1 or AIX 7.1.
>> 
>> emacs -q still demonstrates the problem.  emacs 24.3 does not.  I don’t have 
>> a
>> copy of emacs 24.4 to test with.
>> 
>> Does anyone have a clue how to fix or avoid this issue?
> 
> I don't, but wanted to at least add "me too," because I have been living 
> with this in Emacs 24.4 on Solaris.
> 
> I'd assumed it has something to do with using eXceed -- but don't have 
> any facts around that assumption (no ability to test without eXceed).
> 
> (Emacs is running on Solaris, with its display on a Windows machine.)

Thanks.  That helps.  So it appears to have started in 24.4.

I’ll wait a bit hoping someone else might chime in.  But if all else fells,
I’ll take off my shoes and socks and wade into the code.  Between truss
and trace on AIX, I should be able to figure out something.

Perry




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