Mercurial > emacs
changeset 38279:1ded478b3fda
Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
| author | Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 04 Jul 2001 07:21:27 +0000 |
| parents | 9e543d761717 |
| children | f546577bb4e9 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Wed Jul 04 06:22:15 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Wed Jul 04 07:21:27 2001 +0000 @@ -1074,14 +1074,15 @@ * Emacs hangs on KDE when a large portion of text is killed. -This happens because KDE intercepts the X clipboard and appears not to -notify Emacs properly when it is done. A C-g will not interrupt this: -Emacs will print "Quit", but will continue waiting. After a while, -Emacs will print a message: +This is caused by a bug in the KDE applet `klipper' which periodically +requests the X clipboard contents from applications. Early versions +of klipper don't implement the ICCM protocol for large selections, +which leads to Emacs being flooded with selection requests. After a +while, Emacs will print a message: Timed out waiting for property-notify event -A workaround is to kill the KDE application called `klipper'. +A workaround is to not use `klipper'. * Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any