Re: cut/paste support in X Windows (running Gnome)

[Olive]

Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
> It is ironic, but cut/paste on X Windows does not work.  It works on
> Windows XP Emacs GUI out of the box.  In fact, the only way I can copy
> in X Windows is with mouse copy/paste functionality.
>
> I am running:
>
> FreeBSD 5.3
> GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (X toolkit, Xaw3d scrollbars)
I had problem due to th efact that emacs didn't use the proper encoding 
for the keyboard. I have solved this problem by putting this in my .emacs

(set-selection-coding-system (quote latin-1))