Am 08.05.2014 09:09, schrieb Alessandro Pasotti:
2014-05-08 8:42 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
On 8 May 2014 16:30, Alessandro Pasotti <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 2014-05-08 2:23 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
>>
>> On 7 May 2014 22:36, Alessandro Pasotti <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm not sure it is a geany bug but this is the only GTK
application I
>> > use
>> > and I'm on kubuntu 14.04.
>> >
>> > The problem seems the same described here:
>> >
>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1032119
>> >
>> > - Copy-paste with mouse wheel fails
>> > + Left-click clears PRIMARY buffer selection (Copy-paste with
middle-
>> > + button/mouse wheel fails)
>> >
>> > To reproduce, try the following steps in gedit, geany or
jedit (same in
>> > old
>> > bug-report):
>> >
>> > 1) Select some text, thus copying it to the primary
>> > copy-paste-buffer-thingy.
>> > 2) *Left* click somewhere on the document, thus clearing the
selection.
>> > 3) Click mouse wheel (middle click).
>> >
>>
>> Many people brought up on cut/copy to clipboard and paste do
not seem
>> to grasp that the selection is a *selection*, it is not copied to a
>> clipboard.
>>
>> The applications that the bug reporters call "working" are
doing the
>> wrong thing and copying the selection to the CLIPBOARD or
internally
>> preserving it even after it is unselected.
>>
>> When the middle paste is used it pastes the PRIMARY selection,
or if
>> there is no selection pastes clipboard. So the applications
doing the
>> wrong thing will paste (either from their own internal copy or from
>> clipboard), but those doing the right thing won't.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Lex
>
Funny, it's about 20 years now that I'm using that method to quickly
copy-paste under linux using the mouse, just to discover today that
it's the wrong one :) Never too late to learn something!
BTW it's a pity, because I find it much more quick and intuitive than
hitting various keyboard combinations like CTRL+SHIF+C or similar.
Just to be sure, I did some quick tests (I'm on Kubuntu 14.04 64bit):
mouse copy-paste works fine (as I expected) in terminal applications
like konsole and xterm and works in mozilla FF and thunderbird.
Among IDE's it works fine under kdevelop, netbeans, eclipse kepler.
Ah, it also works in vim (didn't test emacs though).... I'm pretty
sure all curses-based apps work.
Are you really sure that all these applications are doing it the wrong
way?
It seems to me that clearing the selection/buffer when the user start
dragging would much better that clearing it on mouse down events.
I wonder why you even clear the selection with an additional left-click?
Just select and middle paste directly.
Best regards.
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