Hello, there appear to be some problems with recent development/snapshot versions of emacs with respect to getting the X selections. Org uses these automatically within org-capture and, at best, causes long delays in capturing anything and, at worst, doesn't work at all.
I have found that letting org only consider the PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections sort of solves the problem for the time being: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- diff --git a/lisp/org-capture.el b/lisp/org-capture.el index 65de098..f94becb 100644 --- a/lisp/org-capture.el +++ b/lisp/org-capture.el @@ -1534,7 +1534,8 @@ The template may still contain \"%?\" for cursor positioning." (v-c (and (> (length kill-ring) 0) (current-kill 0))) (v-x (or (org-get-x-clipboard 'PRIMARY) (org-get-x-clipboard 'CLIPBOARD) - (org-get-x-clipboard 'SECONDARY))) + ;;(org-get-x-clipboard 'SECONDARY) + )) (v-t (format-time-string (car org-time-stamp-formats) ct1)) (v-T (format-time-string (cdr org-time-stamp-formats) ct1)) (v-u (concat "[" (substring v-t 1 -1) "]")) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I'm not suggesting this as a patch to org but only providing this for anybody that may be having the problems I am having. -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.1, Org release_8.3beta-578-g4df091