On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:35:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Any idea why this is

The X selection mechanism. The application owning the selection is sent
a request to send us the contents of the selection and convert them to a
suitable format. We then should eventually receive an event indicating 
that the contents are available. Obviously we can't wait for that in
paste().

> and/or how to work around.

Make all programs use the antiquated cutbuffers instead :).

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Tuomo

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