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Ubuntu behaves as if I have two clipboards

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Mar 15, 20264127 views
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Problem

My produces a different result that I can't reproduce this, it happens randomly, so I can't specify the circumstances just yet. I will as soon as I can make it happen all the time. Please advise!

Error Output

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release:    10.04
Codename:   lucid

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Fix for: Ubuntu behaves as if I have two clipboards

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X actually has three clipboards. Highlighting text moves it into one clipboard ( ), then performing a copy operation copies it to a second ( ) (the third [ ] is almost never used). The two paste methods are using different clipboards, which is causi…

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