This is one of those issues that's hard to pin down to a specific component. There once was a time when a user could select any text in a window, place the mouse cursor over an editable text buffer, middle click, and the selected text would be inserted at the location of the pointer. That seems to still work under most circumstances, provided I select the text using the mouse. If I select the text using the keyboard, it appears all bets are off. For example, using a recent CVS build of Emacs, I select text using Shift+Up-Arrow, and middle click in the KMail edit buffer, I end up with the text from a previous copy and paste, not the currently selected text. If I try to copy the text using Ctrl+Insert, then Shift+Insert in the KMail buffer, the result is different previously copied text. In general, the only means I have of copying and pasting text is a significant amount of trial and error, often combined with a good deal of inventiveness, such as pasting into an intermediate buffer and repeating the selection action before pasting the text into the destination buffer. Is there something generally hosed in X these days? Are other people having similar problems? -- Regards, Steven