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* Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2004:09:08:20:50:49+0200]
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> Hi Michael,
>
> * Michael D Schleif <mds@xxxxxxxxxxx> [040908 20:46]:
> > Recently, when mutt shells out to do things -- especially, to compose
> > messages with vim -- I am seeing the following errors:
>
> vim tries per default to connect to a running Xserver to make the
> clipboard available to the user. If you don't have X11 running but a
> DISPLAY variable set, it delays the start and gives errors like these.
OK, I understand what you are saying; but, I *AM* running X11:
# ps ax | grep -i x11
960 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon
1039 ? S 0:02 /usr/bin/Xprt -ac -pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -fp
. . .
1144 ? S< 571:43 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7 -auth
/var/run/xauth/A:0-k78tCG
> To prevent vim to connect to X11 add the following to your .vimrc:
>
> set clipboard=autoselect,exclude:.*
Yes; but, something recently changed on this Debian system, leading to
this anomaly, and I would rather fix that than treat the symptom ;>
> you could of course also unset DISPLAY or run vim -X, but that is ugly.
> And who wants the damn clipboard anyway?
Well, I often cut-n-paste between various windows. Now that you mention
this, I have also recently noticed the need to hold down the Shift key
while pasting on this system.
What could be broken?
What do you think?
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