Re: Fedora 40 emacs clipboard appending

[Ken Goldman]

On 4/28/2024 4:56 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Po Lu wrote:
>
> > Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com> writes:
> >
> > > My environment is emacs on Fedora 40 in a VNC window, the vnc client
> > > is Windows 11.
> > >
> > > When I copy-region-as-kill, it appends to the clipboard vnc uses, so
> > > paste in Windows gets a long history.
> > >
> > > All works for windows other than emacs, and it only fails when I paste
> > > to Windows.
> > >
> > > I know that there are many Linux and emacs clipboards, and something
> > > changed with Fedora 40.
> > >
> > > Any hints?
> >
> > Fedora moved to installing the PGTK configuration of Emacs by default,
> > which isn't designed for X servers, of which your VNC server probably is
> > one.  You should either reinstall a different package (emacs-x11?) or
> > build Emacs from source.
> rpm -qa emacs*
> emacs-filesystem-29.3-5.fc40.noarch
> emacs-gtk+x11-29.3-5.fc40.x86_64 <<< This one
> emacs-common-29.3-5.fc40.x86_64
> emacs-29.3-5.fc40.x86_64

For the record, this is correct.

Aliasing emacs to emacs-gtk+x11 fixed the clipboard.