This is a wellknown issue with all X apps, no?
PRIMARY: middle click will paste whatever you last selected.
CLIPBOARD: choosing paste menu pastes whatever you copied using a copy menu.

I suppose so.  It is pretty unfriendly though.  It means
I have to select (which requires a bit more dexterity)
to paste a URL into emacs.  Also, the desktop is not
consistent here -- Copy Link Location does what I expect
in firefox.  I don't see a downside to changing gnome-terminal
to "select" the URL for me.  But then that may be an artifact
of how I work.

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Still a bug in F8.

Tom, it's as simple as "right-click->Paste"ing instead of middle-clicking.

If you still insist that it should copy the link in both CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY,
then this bug needs to go upstream...

I will file it upstream, where it can be more conveniently closed ;)

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