Public bug reported:
I use Geany all day, every day. It's a wonderfully light-weight editor
with enough IDE functionality to keep me productive without getting in
my way. I generally work with a Geany window on one side of my monitor,
a Gnome Terminal window on the other.
Something I do all the time is to select some text in Geany (a variable
name, say) then middle click into the terminal. For example I might type
'grep' (or the superb 'ag') into the terminal, then middle-click to
append the variable name to search for. Since upgrading to Ubuntu 21.04,
this has stopped working [1]. Trying to copy in the opposite direction,
from the terminal into Geany, has also stopped working [2].
Oddly, I still the expected behaviour as long as I stay *within* a Geany
window: I can double-click on a word to select it, then middle-click to
paste what was just selected.
The normal ctrl+c, ctrl+v clipboard works just fine.
[1] Something does get pasted, but not what I selected in Geany.
Instead, it is whatever I last selected from within another application,
eg. Firefox.
[2] What does get pasted in this case is more complicated. If I haven't
selected anything in a while I will actually get the expected behaviour:
the terminal selection will pasted into Geany. Usually though, I'll just
get whatever I last highlighted in the Geany window instead.
** Affects: geany (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Selecting text within Geany then middle clicking into another
application (or vice-versa) has stopped working.
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