Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: libgtk2.0-0
Hello!
For a couple months now at least I have been unable to use
Shit+[Ctrl+]arrows to select text in some applications. I ignored it at
first, thinking it'll get fixed, but it's not happening. Then I've seen
bug #131913, so I still waited, but that one is marked fixed, and I
still get this behavior. I've also tried the fixes there, like disabling
ezoom—I've actually eliminated every key setting that contained any of
the arrows or shift, except for "alt+shift+tab"—and I still get this
behavior.
Exact description: I can't use any of the shift+arrow key presses to
select text. Nor does shift+control+arrow work. Shift+[home, end,
pageup, pagedown] works OK, though. I can select with the mouse, too.
The shift-arrow combinations don't work in some applications, like
Gedit, Exaile and gmusicbrowser. It didn't use to happen in Firefox 2,
but ever since Firefox 3 it's happening there too, perhaps because it
started using native widgets. It doesn't work in Eclipse (which also
uses native widgets), either.
Interestingly, the keys work in Geany (GTK), Amarok (Qt) and OpenOffice
(Java without native widgets in my install) and git-gui (tcl/tk). I'm
attaching this provisionally to libgtk2.0-0 (though Geany works), maybe
we can track it down closer to something else.
** Affects: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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can't select text with shift+arrow
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192146
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