Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.8) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages verbatim copy from bugs.debian.org/451332: "For a month or two now, I have noticed that if the active window I have in my xserver is a kmail message, and I switch out of GUI to a text console and then back to the GUI, the contents of my cut and paste buffer end up being pasted in my email message. This gets to be annoying after a while." Reproducible not only in kmail but also kedit, kwriter ... and so on. Just follow these steps: 1. Open any of those programs and keep it at top as an active window 2.- Write down something 3.- Copy to the X buffer by highlighting it 4-. Switch out of X to a TTY console 5.- Switch back to X your X buffer is pasted ... (not reproducible with GTK applications)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13144