Re: Problem copying large text under X

[Kim F. Storm]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

> 2004-11-05 kl. 16.58 skrev Kim F. Storm:
>
>>
>> I don't know the details of the protocol, but perhaps emacs could just
>> ignore those extra polls for the clip-board if it hasn't changed and
>> the request has the same originator?
>
> I guess so, but some time limit has to be enforced, after all, the
> same client may very well request the same selection more than once
> (like pasting twice fast in an xterm).  Also, Emacs does not currently
> keep track of old requestors.

I tried to force klipper not to autostart, but no luck.

Here is an effective patch that works for me -- I don't know why, but
Klipper seems to use the same requestor value even after I restart KDE.

It is most likely completely non-portable, but could be made portable if
we could identify klipper by its steady stream of requests.

But I guess we shouldn't really spend a lot of time trying to work around
this Klipper bug.

*** 1056,1061 ****
--- 1059,1070 ----
  
    if (event->kind == SELECTION_REQUEST_EVENT)
      {
+       /* Klipper */
+       if ((unsigned long) SELECTION_EVENT_REQUESTOR (event) == 0x01a00104)
+       {
+         TRACE0 ("Ignore klipper request");
+         return;
+       }
        if (x_queue_selection_requests)
        x_queue_event (event);
        else

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