Am 08.05.2014 08:30, schrieb Alessandro Pasotti:
2014-05-08 2:23 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com mailto:elextr@gmail.com>:
On 7 May 2014 22:36, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti@gmail.com <mailto:apasotti@gmail.com>> 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 LexSorry but I don't understand your answer, I try to describe better the steps to reproduce:
- Select some text by *Left* clicking and move the mouse over the
text, then release the *Left* click [1] 2) *Left* click somewhere on the document, usually in the place you want to paste 3) Click mouse wheel (middle click). 4) nothing is pasted
is this the expected behavior?
(not for me)
Am 08.05.2014 08:30, schrieb Alessandro Pasotti:
2014-05-08 2:23 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com mailto:elextr@gmail.com>:
On 7 May 2014 22:36, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti@gmail.com <mailto:apasotti@gmail.com>> 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 LexSorry but I don't understand your answer, I try to describe better the steps to reproduce:
- Select some text by *Left* clicking and move the mouse over the
text, then release the *Left* click [1] 2) *Left* click somewhere on the document, usually in the place you want to paste 3) Click mouse wheel (middle click). 4) nothing is pasted
is this the expected behavior?
(not for me)
I think so. Nothing should be pasted if there is no selection. But I think many other applications make X paste the previous selected (presumably by copying the selection into the clipboard).
Best regards