"copy" does not work when doing selection with "shift" key

[Facundo Batista]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

If I select some text with just the mouse, "copy" works ok.

But if I select some text, go up some lines, and having the "shift" key pressed I click again, the whole text is selected (highlighted), but "copy" does not work: it just doesn't replace the previous clipboard content.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 22 14:47:37 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-terminal 2.29.6-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_AR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic-pae
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic-pae i686

[Davide Lasagna (lasagnadavide)]

Hi,
 thanks for taking the time to report this bug and making Ubuntu better.

 I can reproduce this bug, so i'm going to report this bug upstream.

Cheers

Davide

[Nikolaus Rath (nikratio)]

There seems to be some connection between this bug and bug #579568.

[Russ Tokuyama (russtoku)]

I've also noted this behavior with lxterminal and xfce4-terminal.

I agree that there is some connection between this bug and bug #57568. If you drag to make a selection and then expand the selection using shift+left click, when you copy and paste you get only the part that was selected using the drag gesture.

[Florian Schmidt (flosch369)]

I can confirm this behaviour for xfce4-terminal. Think this bug is connected to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-terminal/+bug/565330

(Sorry, don't know the correct syntax to post a link in launchpad and didn't find any information about that. So just the plain URL above...)