Brushing right-edge of trackpad causes clipboard to paste text
Bug #386017 reported by
Patrick Conway
This bug affects 9 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Settings Daemon |
Fix Released
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Medium
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I've experienced this bug on every computer that I've installed ubuntu on, I don't know whether it is specific to trackpads or not. Basically, when I read webpages, I will often highlight my way down the page. And I will frequently discover that this highlighting and clicking will copy text which is then pasted when I click on an input box--such as the google toolbar or an open office document. I recognize that this is probably a feature, but it should be disabled by default. It was the only complaint I've received about usability from the average computer users I've introduced to ubuntu
Related branches
tags: |
added: trackpad removed: design |
summary: |
- Unknown trackpad combination pastes text highlighted from different - applications. + Brushing Right-edge of trackpad pastes text: |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → round-6 |
summary: |
- Brushing Right-edge of trackpad pastes text: + Brushing right-edge of trackpad causes clipboard to paste text |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | round-6 → none |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
tags: |
added: patch-forwarded-upstream removed: patch-needswork |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
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I don't know whether this is actually a duplicate, I think that having the middle button click paste previously highlighted text should be fixed for trackpads so that it only pastes when you click both mouse buttons, and not when you bump into the scroll bar. This would fix 'copy-paste' in ubuntu so that power users could still copy-paste without having to ctrl c, ctrl v but also keep people from accidentally pasting text while typing. I run into this accidental pasting every day. It seems like it's a feature which is pretty deeply rooted in linux, so I don't know whether it's possible to tweak it in this instance so it recognizes a distinction between middle mouse click (press both left and right buttons) and middle mouse click (touch scroll on trackpad). I am sure that other ubuntu users who use the track pad primarily also run into this issue. Thanks for your help.