[gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

Hi Group,

I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other 
Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; 
Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the 
content of the first selection.

It seems that the clipboard content is overwritten as soon as I mark 
text. This behaviour is not depending on the window manager/ desktop 
environment (I tried fvwm and kde), so it is probably some X 
configuration stuff. As far as I have understood, there are 2 different 
clipboards with one being changed as soon as you mark text (pasting at 
mouse-middle-click) and the other is changed by pressing Ctrl-c (pasting 
at Ctrl-v). Is that correct?

If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into 
the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the 
possibility to change this behaviour?

Cheers, Heinz
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