[Geany-Users] Problem with mouse copy/paste

[Lex Trotman]

On 8 May 2014 16:30, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-05-08 2:23 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 7 May 2014 22:36, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at 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
>>
>> Lex
>
>
>
> Sorry but I don't understand your answer, I try to describe better the steps
> to reproduce:
>
>  1) Select some text by *Left* clicking and move the mouse over the text,
> then release the *Left* click [1]

So some text is selected, usually it is highlighted.  It is *not*
copied to the clipboard.

>  2) *Left* click somewhere on the document, usually in the place you want to
> paste

Selection is removed, ***nothing*** is highlighted, ***nothing*** is selected.

>  3) Click mouse wheel (middle click).
>  4) nothing is pasted

Because nothing is selected, see step 2.

This is expected.

Cheers
Lex

>
>
> is this the expected behavior?
>
> (not for me)
>
> [1] this is the way I usually select-copy text under X
>
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> Alessandro Pasotti
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