Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > I've had this problem in the past. I found that setting this variable helps: > > ,----[ C-h v x-selection-timeout RET ] > | x-selection-timeout is a variable defined in ‘C source code’. > | Its value is 10 > | > | Documentation: > | Number of milliseconds to wait for a selection reply. > | If the selection owner doesn’t reply in this time, we give up. > | A value of 0 means wait as long as necessary. This is initialized from the > | "*selectionTimeout" resource. > `---- > > For me, a value of 10 works well in most cases. Sometimes this means > that the selection from another application (e.g. the browser) is not > found but at least it doesn't stall.
Thanks, mine was set to 5000. Seems like I've seen it stall for longer than 5 seconds, but perhaps in those cases one of the primary or clipboard selections timed out as well. I'm on OpenBSD by the way. -- Allan Streib Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Digital Science Center :: Community Grids Lab :: FutureSystems Allan
