I highlight some text with the mouse in one X window. A few seconds later in another window a middle-click, but instead of the text I just selected what gets inserted is:
[email protected] disconnected W-what? Where did that come from? Oh, there's been some kind of network blip, which has disconnected Pidgin. Pidgin is displaying a message at the bottom of its contacts list to tell me about that, and it's decided to highlight the heading on the message. In particular, IT'S HIGHLIGHTED THE HEADING BY MAKING IT THE X SELECTION!! Yes, that does change the colour of that part of the window, drawing attention to it, but -- hatefully -- it also overwrites what I previously had in the X selection with its error message. Smylers
