The workaround of comment #3 works, but the following upgrade of parcellite (not in Ubuntu at the time of writing yet) also seems to solve the problem:
http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/?p=312 (version 1.1.8)
The workaround of comment #3 works, but the following upgrade of parcellite (not in Ubuntu at the time of writing yet) also seems to solve the problem:
http:// parcellite. sourceforge. net/?p= 312 (version 1.1.8)