[MacPorts] #6495: BUG: "Can't set selection" error in emacs when emacs started from remote shell

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#6495: BUG: "Can't set selection" error in emacs when emacs started from remote
shell
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  Reporter:  vincent-opdarw@…           |       Owner:  darren.bane@…        
      Type:  defect                     |      Status:  new                  
  Priority:  Normal                     |   Milestone:                       
 Component:  ports                      |     Version:                       
Resolution:                             |    Keywords:                       
      Port:  emacs                      |  
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Comment(by dports@…):

 Replying to [comment:14 vinc17@…]:
 > Also, the last comment is a bit incorrect, at least under 10.4: if
 screen is started in iTerm, for instance, then copy-paste works fine. The
 only problem is when screen is started from a SSH session.

 I stand corrected -- I think screen only behaves that way under 10.5.
 Under 10.4, I think it wasn't doing anything special with regards to
 launchd and contexts, although I'm not entirely sure since I can't tell
 what version of screen (and what Apple patches) shipped with 10.4.

 > I'd like to know how the per-session context works, in order to see
 whether there's a work around.

 Looks like things were a bit different in this respect with 10.4 too. I
 think basically each login (GUI or ssh) was in its own session context,
 without a per-user namespace shared among all of that user's contexts. In
 other words, even if screen isn't doing anything special, anything started
 from a ssh session won't be able to access the pasteboard server. So I
 wouldn't be too hopeful about getting it to copy-paste correctly. You
 *might* be able to work around it using launchctl bsexec if that's
 available in 10.4.

 For reference, you might want to take a look at this Apple TN:
 http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html
 It's mostly about 10.5, but has some info about earlier versions at the
 end. Unfortunately, nothing about 10.6.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/6495#comment:15>
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