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When trying to paste into Emacs from my Linux system GUI, I'm getting a 10-15 second Emacs freeze and:

gui-get-selection: (error "Timed out waiting for reply from selection owner")

I would post a bug, except I can't pin-point the condition to reliably reproduce the bug. Has anyone else encountered this? I'm on GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1.

Malabarba
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The short answer: yes (also with 25.0.50.1).

This might be related to emacs bug 16737.

Try running (shell-command-to-string "xclip -o"). When I attempt this (once emacs has started misbehaving with respect to any attempt to yank), emacs hangs until I kill xclip.

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  • I can reproduce this. – abo-abo Dec 24 '14 at 16:38
  • It looks like there are actually a few bug reports probably related to this that have been merged: 16737 17026 17101 17172 (see debbugs.gnu.org for some of the details -- doesn't look like there are any happy endings yet...). – dat Dec 24 '14 at 16:46
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The error message indeed seems to come form xclip! If running 'xclip -o' after a fresh reboot, (i.e. when the clipboard is still empty, ) then the error message appears (gui-get-selection: (error "Timed out waiting for reply from selection owner")).

Workaround: Ctrl+C anything

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