Left-click clears PRIMARY buffer selection (Copy-paste with middle-button/mouse wheel fails)
Bug #34629 reported by
Tero Karvinen
This bug affects 19 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GTK+ |
Invalid
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Medium
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Left-click clears the visible selection *and* PRIMARY buffer contents, rather than just clearing the visible selection. This means that a user middle-click pasting finds the text has been dropped and that they can't paste what they expected to paste without going back and reselecting in the previous application again.
1) Select some text.
2) Click somewhere on the document.
3) Click mouse wheel.
Using the PRIMARY mechanism, text should be pasted like it works elsewhere in X. However, nothing is pasted in gedit.
Using the CLIPBOARD mechanism, Ctrl-C, ctrl-V copy-pasting seems to work within gedit, so this is unrelated.
Changed in gtk+2.0: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in gtk: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in gtk: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in gtk: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
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Thanks for your bug. Does it work with other applications? The clipboard is an xorg feature so it's likely to be an xorg bug. That's weird because it works fine for me and we didn't get bugs about that