bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections

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On 17/10/2024 1:49, Po Lu wrote:

> > Why does waiting work around the problem?
> Because it takes time for X clipboard managers to respond to selection
> ownership changes and to complete reading from other programs'
> selections.
>
> Not a bug, sorry.
>

Thanks for the explanation, and no need to apologise!

For those of us wanting to read more on this, I dug around a bit and found some explanations

here https://github.com/jhunt/xclipd,

here https://jameshunt.us/writings/x11-clipboard-management-foibles/,

and here https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2017-04-02/0/POSTING-en.html