Text appears to be deselected (though is not) when holding down CTRL if the "Show location of cursor" option is on

[Wise Melon]

I recently enabled the option in the gnome-tweak-tool called "Show location of cursor" so now when I press CTRL I get a nice animation coming from my cursor. However if I have any text selected when I press CTRL, until I have released the button, the text appears as normal and appears to be deselected though I believe it is not, if it is, then it just reselect when I release the button.

And this becomes rather distracting when trying to copy text as it disappears when you press CTRL... And it's not just for text, it seems to do the same for anything that is selected, such as a text box or something.

Upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-tweaks/issues/66

OS Information:

    No LSB modules are available.
    Distributor ID: Ubuntu
    Description: Ubuntu 15.10
    Release: 15.10
    Codename: wily
    Flavour: GNOME
    GNOME Version: 3.18

Package Information:

    gnome-tweak-tool:
      Installed: 3.18.0-1~wily1
      Candidate: 3.18.0-1~wily1
      Version table:
     *** 3.18.0-1~wily1 0
            500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
            100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
         3.16.2-2 0
            500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

This maybe a theme issue, I can't reproduce this in xenial with the default Adwaita theme

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

Well, I'm using the Numix theme, maybe you should test it with that. It
still shouldn't be doing this with one of the pre-installed themes though.

On 26 January 2016 at 23:41, Tim <email address hidden> wrote:

> This maybe a theme issue, I can't reproduce this in xenial with the
> default Adwaita theme
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1538248
>
> Title:
> Text appears to be deselected (though is not) when holding down CTRL
> if the "Show location of cursor" option is on
>
> Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
> New
> Status in gnome-tweak-tool package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I recently enabled the option in the gnome-tweak-tool called "Show
> location of cursor" so now when I press CTRL I get a nice animation
> coming from my cursor. However if I have any text selected when I
> press CTRL, until I have released the button, the text appears as
> normal and appears to be deselected though I believe it is not, if it
> is, then it just reselect when I release the button.
>
> And this becomes rather distracting when trying to copy text as it
> disappears when you press CTRL... And it's not just for text, it seems
> to do the same for anything that is selected, such as a text box or
> something.
>
> OS Information:
>
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 15.10
> Release: 15.10
> Codename: wily
> Flavour: GNOME
> GNOME Version: 3.18
>
> Package Information:
>
> gnome-tweak-tool:
> Installed: 3.18.0-1~wily1
> Candidate: 3.18.0-1~wily1
> Version table:
> *** 3.18.0-1~wily1 0
> 500
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/ wily/main
> amd64 Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 3.16.2-2 0
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64
> Packages
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1538248/+subscriptions
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[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

I have also filed a report upstream on this issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763237

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream report has moved to:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-tweaks/-/issues/66
but there has been no recent activity.

Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) reached end-of-life on July 28, 2016.

Reporter no longer uses Ubuntu so can't ask if this is still
an issue when using a current release.

As I don't see this problem when using Ubuntu 22.04 I''m
closing this report by changing the status to 'Invalid'.