Re: Strange slowness when killing words interactively

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

David De La Harpe Golden writes:
 > On 03/05/11 02:14, Taylor Venable wrote:
 > 
 > >> Are you running a clipboard daemon (e.g. kde klipper, xfce4-clipman) in
 > >> your desktop environment?
 > >
 > > Nope.
 > 
 > I'm actually kinda out of ideas if it's not a rogue daemon.

Is there any chance he's using Motif?  The Motif clipboard protocol is
capable of producing delays that even the US immigration service would
envy.