diff -r 9139e4655e6f -r 0b37f2f70dfb pidgin/gtkimhtml.c
--- a/pidgin/gtkimhtml.c	Mon Jun 04 05:47:51 2007 +0000
+++ b/pidgin/gtkimhtml.c	Mon Jun 04 05:55:13 2007 +0000
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@
 };
 static guint signals [LAST_SIGNAL] = { 0 };
 
+static char *html_clipboard = NULL;
+static char *text_clipboard = NULL;
+GtkClipboard *clipboard_selection = NULL;
+
 static GtkTargetEntry selection_targets[] = {
 #ifndef _WIN32
 	{ "text/html", 0, TARGET_HTML },
@@ -875,14 +879,17 @@
 
 static void gtk_imhtml_clipboard_get(GtkClipboard *clipboard, GtkSelectionData *selection_data, guint info, GtkIMHtml *imhtml) {
 	char *text = NULL;
-	gboolean primary;
+	gboolean primary = (clipboard != clipboard_selection);
 	GtkTextIter start, end;
-	GtkTextMark *sel = gtk_text_buffer_get_selection_bound(imhtml->text_buffer);
-	GtkTextMark *ins = gtk_text_buffer_get_insert(imhtml->text_buffer);
-
-	gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_mark(imhtml->text_buffer, &start, sel);
-	gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_mark(imhtml->text_buffer, &end, ins);
-	primary = gtk_widget_get_clipboard(GTK_WIDGET(imhtml), GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY) == clipboard;
+	GtkTextMark *sel = NULL;
+	GtkTextMark *ins = NULL; 
+
+	if (primary) { 
+		ins = gtk_text_buffer_get_insert(imhtml->text_buffer);
+		sel = gtk_text_buffer_get_selection_bound(imhtml->text_buffer);
+		gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_mark(imhtml->text_buffer, &start, sel);
+		gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_mark(imhtml->text_buffer, &end, ins);
+	}
 
 	if (info == TARGET_HTML) {
 		char *selection;
@@ -892,7 +899,7 @@
 		if (primary) {
 			text = gtk_imhtml_get_markup_range(imhtml, &start, &end);
 		} else
-			text = imhtml->clipboard_html_string;
+			text = html_clipboard;
 
 		/* Mozilla asks that we start our text/html with the Unicode byte order mark */
 		str = g_string_append_unichar(str, 0xfeff);
@@ -910,7 +917,7 @@
 		if (primary) {
 			text = gtk_imhtml_get_text(imhtml, &start, &end);
 		} else
-			text = imhtml->clipboard_text_string;
+			text = text_clipboard;
 		gtk_selection_data_set_text(selection_data, text, strlen(text));
 	}
 	if (primary) /* This was allocated here */
@@ -933,20 +940,32 @@
 					   &insert);
 }
 
+static void gtk_imhtml_clipboard_clear (GtkClipboard *clipboard, GtkSelectionData *sel_data,
+				 guint info, gpointer user_data_or_owner)
+{
+	clipboard_selection = NULL;
+}
+
 static void copy_clipboard_cb(GtkIMHtml *imhtml, gpointer unused)
 {
 	GtkTextIter start, end;
 	if (gtk_text_buffer_get_selection_bounds(imhtml->text_buffer, &start, &end)) {
-		gtk_clipboard_set_with_owner(gtk_widget_get_clipboard(GTK_WIDGET(imhtml), GDK_SELECTION_CLIPBOARD),
+		if (!clipboard_selection)
+			clipboard_selection = gtk_widget_get_clipboard(GTK_WIDGET(imhtml), GDK_SELECTION_CLIPBOARD);
+		gtk_clipboard_set_with_owner(clipboard_selection,
 						 selection_targets, sizeof(selection_targets) / sizeof(GtkTargetEntry),
 						 (GtkClipboardGetFunc)gtk_imhtml_clipboard_get,
-						 (GtkClipboardClearFunc)NULL, G_OBJECT(imhtml));
+						 (GtkClipboardClearFunc)gtk_imhtml_clipboard_clear, G_OBJECT(imhtml));
 
 		g_free(imhtml->clipboard_html_string);
 		g_free(imhtml->clipboard_text_string);
 
 		imhtml->clipboard_html_string = gtk_imhtml_get_markup_range(imhtml, &start, &end);
 		imhtml->clipboard_text_string = gtk_imhtml_get_text(imhtml, &start, &end);
+
+		text_clipboard = imhtml->clipboard_text_string;
+		html_clipboard = imhtml->clipboard_html_string;
+	
 	}
 
 	g_signal_stop_emission_by_name(imhtml, "copy-clipboard");
@@ -956,10 +975,12 @@
 {
 	GtkTextIter start, end;
 	if (gtk_text_buffer_get_selection_bounds(imhtml->text_buffer, &start, &end)) {
-		gtk_clipboard_set_with_owner(gtk_widget_get_clipboard(GTK_WIDGET(imhtml), GDK_SELECTION_CLIPBOARD),
+		if (!clipboard_selection)
+			clipboard_selection = gtk_widget_get_clipboard(GTK_WIDGET(imhtml), GDK_SELECTION_CLIPBOARD);
+		gtk_clipboard_set_with_owner(clipboard_selection,
 						 selection_targets, sizeof(selection_targets) / sizeof(GtkTargetEntry),
 						 (GtkClipboardGetFunc)gtk_imhtml_clipboard_get,
-						 (GtkClipboardClearFunc)NULL, G_OBJECT(imhtml));
+						 (GtkClipboardClearFunc)gtk_imhtml_clipboard_clear, G_OBJECT(imhtml));
 
 		g_free(imhtml->clipboard_html_string);
 		g_free(imhtml->clipboard_text_string);
@@ -967,6 +988,9 @@
 		imhtml->clipboard_html_string = gtk_imhtml_get_markup_range(imhtml, &start, &end);
 		imhtml->clipboard_text_string = gtk_imhtml_get_text(imhtml, &start, &end);
 
+		text_clipboard = imhtml->clipboard_text_string;
+		html_clipboard = imhtml->clipboard_html_string;
+
 		if (imhtml->editable)
 			gtk_text_buffer_delete_selection(imhtml->text_buffer, FALSE, FALSE);
 	}
@@ -1220,11 +1244,6 @@
 		g_free(img_data);
 	}
 
-	if (imhtml->clipboard_text_string) {
-		g_free(imhtml->clipboard_text_string);
-		g_free(imhtml->clipboard_html_string);
-	}
-
 	g_list_free(imhtml->scalables);
 	g_slist_free(imhtml->im_images);
 	g_queue_free(imhtml->animations);
@@ -1232,6 +1251,12 @@
 	g_free(imhtml->search_string);
 	g_object_unref(imhtml->undo_manager);
 	G_OBJECT_CLASS(parent_class)->finalize (object);
+	if (clipboard_selection)
+		gtk_clipboard_set_with_owner(clipboard_selection,
+        	                             selection_targets, sizeof(selection_targets) / sizeof(GtkTargetEntry),
+                	                     (GtkClipboardGetFunc)gtk_imhtml_clipboard_get,
+                        	             (GtkClipboardClearFunc)NULL, G_OBJECT(imhtml));
+
 }
 
 /* Boring GTK+ stuff */