bug#23681: Observations

[Christian Lynbech]

The problem is still visible on recent versions of emacs:

    GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll 
bars) 
    of 2017-10-24

I am running emacs on Linux within a VNC4 server (vnc4server 4.1.1+xorg4. 
amd64).

The VNC client is running on macos 10.13.1 (High Sierra).

When copying some text from (say) the Safari web browser, one can paste
it into something like the Gnome Terminal program but trying to paste it
into emacs will provoke the error. Copying text from within the VNC
server and pasting it into applications running on the Mac works as
expected.

A work-around seems to be set the following:

        (setq x-select-request-type 'STRING)

though it is unclear to me if that has any other undesirable effects.


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