I'm running FC6, and gnome. Experiment: Open firefox, highlight something, paste it in evolution using middle click, and it works. Close firefox, paste again using middle click, and something else was pasted. Ctrl-c/v method also appears to be the same. Firefox was installed from livna, so it may not compile right for my system? Copying form Gedit to Evolution, the middle click approach exhibits the same problem, whereas, the ctrl-c/v works even after Gedit is closed. On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 04:14 -0500, Doug Wyatt wrote: > Chu Tan wrote: > > I find that if I cut some text from an app, once the app is closed the > > text in the clipboard is also cleared. > > > > Is this a linux feature, or some bug that happens on my installation? > > > > Thanks > > > > Chu > > > > Could you please be a little more specific? I've tried > a few tests with 'copy', 'cut' and the simple X11 highlight > and paste with the middle button, and in each case was able > to paste the selected text into a gvim window after the > original app was closed. > >