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gtk+2.0 package

  1. Bug #34629
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 34629

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Paolo Borelli (pborelli) wrote : Re: Copy-paste with mouse wheel fails

I never noticed this behavior, but now that you point it out I think you are right. I tested with xterm and it behaves like you suggest:

launch two xterm, select something in one, click so that the selection goes away, middle click in the other xterm -> text is pasted

In other words the clipboard should not be cleared when the selection goes away.

Note however that this bug comes from Gtk (GtkTextView widget which gedit uses), not gedit.