This problem reappears with emacs21 in Feisty, with: (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
I then installed emacs-snapshot, and the copying between emacs and other GNOME apps began working again. -- Edgy: cannot paste text in Gnome apps from Emacs https://launchpad.net/bugs/55631 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs