On Sunday 04 February 2001 19:20, Kevin Fisher wrote:

> I noticed this happening as well.  I think the problem is Klipper, somehow.
> With KDE2 Klipper is running by default...try turning it off and see if
> that makes a difference....it did for me.

bingo! Interestingly, it seems to work if I kill Klipper off and then restart 
it manually.

Klipper polls the clipboard; I wonder what else it's doing.

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Ned Konz
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