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>> I am using emacs 23.2.1 and debian Squezze.  Is this a new
>> "feature" of emacs 23?
> 
> Is what a new feature? pasting text in Emacs copied from outside it?  No.
> 
>> is it because of the usage of gtk libraries?
> 
> Is what because of that?
> 

As emacs23 is compiled with gtk libraries (at least the version of it
that comes with debian), those libraries might be responsible of the
behaviour of copy-paste.

>> It happens in X and also in the console if I try to
>> paste text with gpm.
> 
> "It happens."  What happens?
> 

I cannot paste text between different X applications/ttys in console mode.
I get the message "Kill-Ring is empty".

> Please provide a step-by-step recipe, starting from emacs -Q.  Include which
> keys you hit (in Emacs and outside), what effect you expect, and what effect you
> see instead.
> 
> 

I select text in xterm with left-mouse-button, I try to paste it into
emacs with central-mouse-button and I get the message "Kill ring is
empty".

The same happens in console mode when I try to paste text between
different virtual ttys.