remote xemacs and selection problem (using XWin -clipboard)

[Kris Thielemans]

Hi

I have a problem running XEmacs remotely. When I press ctrl-space, I do get
'mark set', but when I then press Ctrl-w to cut something, I get 'The region
is not active now'. I have exactly the same when selecting a region with the
mouse. The selection immediately disappears (presumably because of the
clipboard functionality). Pressing ctrl-w then gives the above message.

The problem disappears when I remove the -clipboard option from Xwin.
However, even with this option, I do not have this problem when I use
cygwin's emacs (locally).

If I do not use -clipboard, but start xwinclip, the problem reappears.

The problem does not occur in xemacs -nw, so it is definitely X related.

I'm running xemacs 21.4 on debian if that matters. (I'm using ssh -X remote)

$ cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
XFree86-xserv        4.3.0-5


Kris Thielemans
(kris.thielemans <at> imperial.ac.uk)
Hammersmith Imanet
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Hammersmith Hospital
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London W12 ONN, United Kingdom

web site address: http://www.hammersmithimanet.com/~kris