Re: long delay after selecting capture template

[Allan Streib <astreib@indiana.edu>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> I've had this problem in the past. I found that setting this variable helps:
>
> ,----[ C-h v x-selection-timeout RET ]
> | x-selection-timeout is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
> | Its value is 10
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | Number of milliseconds to wait for a selection reply.
> | If the selection owner doesn’t reply in this time, we give up.
> | A value of 0 means wait as long as necessary.  This is initialized from the
> | "*selectionTimeout" resource.
> `----
>
> For me, a value of 10 works well in most cases.  Sometimes this means
> that the selection from another application (e.g. the browser) is not
> found but at least it doesn't stall.

Thanks, mine was set to 5000. Seems like I've seen it stall for longer
than 5 seconds, but perhaps in those cases one of the primary or
clipboard selections timed out as well.

I'm on OpenBSD by the way.

-- 
Allan Streib
Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing
Digital Science Center :: Community Grids Lab :: FutureSystems

Allan