145073 - clipboard doesn't paste text from other programs

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[dylan man]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510

the clipboard works only when pasting text from certain programs
for example I can't paste from emacs, but I can paste from gedit



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. select text in emacs 
2. copy text
3. paste in mozilla

Actual Results:  doesn't paste text from emacs, it pastes from gedit

Expected Results:  paste text from emacs

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you mean bug 143705 ?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please provide detailed steps to reproduce.  In particular:

1)  How do you copy text in emacs?  Keyboard shortcut, menu item, 
    just highlighting it?

2)  How do you paste text into Mozilla?  Keyboard shortcut, menu item,
    middle-mouse-click?

Comment 3

[dylan man]

>1)  How do you copy text in emacs?  Keyboard shortcut, menu item, 
>    just highlighting it?

I tried to copy the text highligting it and menu item (the effect is the same)


>2)  How do you paste text into Mozilla?  Keyboard shortcut, menu item,
>    middle-mouse-click?

If I paste text in mozilla using
keyboard shortcut and menu item -> it doesn't paste
middle-mouse-click -> it pastes the text correctly

thanks

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ah, ok.  There are two clipboards in X, PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD.  See
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt for an explanation of how
the whole thing works.  Emacs is using PRIMARY for everything.  Mozilla uses
PRIMARY for highlight/middle-click and CLIPBOARD for menuitem paste.  Note that
the consensus is now that this is correct and that Emacs v. 21 and higher will
work the same way.

Marking invalid, since the behavior Mozilla is exhibiting is correct.