Here my results: s4y-01:~ # cat /etc/issue Welcome to openSUSE Leap 42.1 - Kernel \r (\l). s4y-01:~ # uname -r 4.1.34-33-default s4y-01:~ # rpm -qa vim; vi --version | grep xterm_clipboard; time vi '+:q' /etc/hosts vim-7.4.326-3.10.x86_64 +eval +mouse_dec +startuptime -xterm_clipboard real 0m0.141s user 0m0.032s sys 0m0.008s s4y-01:~ # rpm -qa vim; vi --version | grep xterm_clipboard; time vi '+:q' /etc/hosts vim-7.4.326-5.1.x86_64 +eval +mouse_dec +startuptime +xterm_clipboard ^C real 0m31.210s user 0m0.044s sys 0m0.012s as you can see I needed to do 'Control-C' the process, cause it won't come up ... even not after 30 seconds