There are two buffers in X system — the primary and the clipboard buffer. The first works when you select something and than paste using middle button. The second works when you press Ctrl+C and paste Ctrl+V. The first can contain only the text, the second is more complicated.

So, GTK applications does not respect the primary buffer, and push any selected text into it, including auto-selected. This make primary buffer unuseable — because auto-selected text usually does not makes any sense.

The qt based apps, in countrary, works in order and push the text into primary buffer only when user select it with a mouse.

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