Fareed Qureshi wrote: > > Aaaarg, the gnome clipboard manager does that. Thanks! Around the same time > > I started to work with lyx I also switched from "klipper" to "glipper" and > > didn't notice it pays bad games with me. Didn't find an option to disable > > that feature yet, so switched back to klipper for now, which does't cause > > this trouble. > > I've been experiencing a similar problem on Ubuntu 10.10 and Lyx 1.6.7 > (marking text with the mouse works normally, but text selections made > via keyboard immediately deselect). It hadn't even occurred to me that > this could be caused by a clipboard manager. I use the parcellite > clipboard manager under Gnome and, sure enough, quitting parcellite > fixes the problem!
you could drop a message to the devs of clipboard manager, maybe it will work in next versions then. pavel
