I really really hate when that happens. It was driving me mad with Emacs for a while until I added this to my .emacs: (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)

I really really hate when that happens. It was driving me mad with Emacs for a while until I added this to my .emacs: (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t) (if (functionp 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value) (setq interprogram-paste-function 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value))