[Geany] Middle mouse click for quick pasting

[Lex Trotman]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:
>> * On 2012 23 Jan 10:37 -0600, John Beaumont | Beecroft wrote:
>>> After some fiddling I notice it only works if you don't deselect
>>> what you have highlighted. I normally highlight, click where I want
>>> then middle click. This behaviour works in all other GTK software but
>>> not Geany. Strange.
>>
>> I concur.  With this comment in mind I selected some text in Geany,
>> left-clicked where I wanted to paste it, and then tried a middle-click.
>> Nothing was pasted as the selection disappeared once the left-click was
>> performed.  However, a middle-cleck without first left-clicking resulted
>> in pasted text as expected.
>>
>> I can paste from Geany to another app and the selection remains
>> highlighted even though Geany is not the focused app.  Pasting from
>> another app works so long as the text remains highlighted.
>>
>> I'm using Geany 0.21 "Gromia" on Debian Sid with XFCE4 on one box and
>> Gnome3 Shell on a laptop.
>
> Hi Nate,
>
> Yes, AFAIK middle mouse click has always required the selection to
> remain highlighted since X was in MIT nappies.
>
> Clearly left clicking in the same app will de-select so nothing
> pastes, but left clicking in another ap just gets focus and the
> selection doesn't change.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>

Nate,

What you decribed appears to me to be consistent with the definition
by freedesktop, see
http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-0.1.txt.

As to why it doesn't work for some people, I don't know, lets see if
there is any information in the version of GTK they are using.
Otherwise, perhaps they have disabled it in their window manager
(though I don't know how).

Cheers
Lex

>
>>
>>
>> - Nate >>
>>
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