Re: Fedora 40 emacs clipboard appending

[Po Lu]

Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com> writes:

> My environment is emacs on Fedora 40 in a VNC window, the vnc client
> is Windows 11.
>
> When I copy-region-as-kill, it appends to the clipboard vnc uses, so
> paste in Windows gets a long history.
>
> All works for windows other than emacs, and it only fails when I paste
> to Windows.
>
> I know that there are many Linux and emacs clipboards, and something
> changed with Fedora 40.
>
> Any hints?

Fedora moved to installing the PGTK configuration of Emacs by default,
which isn't designed for X servers, of which your VNC server probably is
one.  You should either reinstall a different package (emacs-x11?) or
build Emacs from source.