bug#46704: X clipboard is always empty with emacs server without emacsclient running

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I'm not quite sure I understand you correctly here -- but I think you're
> saying that if you start "emacs --daemon", then that daemonised Emacs
> can't communicate with the X clipboard?
>
> I'm not sure, but doesn't that sound quite natural?  If you don't have
> an X window open, then you can't talk to the X server, so you can't
> access the clipboard, either.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I think the conclusion here is that this is working as it should, so I'm
closing this bug report.  If I misunderstood, please respond to the
debbugs address and we'll reopen.

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