[Geany-Users] Problem with mouse copy/paste

[janc at janc.es]

El 14.05.08 16:42:53 > Lex Trotman dijo:
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Alessandro Pasotti
> > w3:   www.itopen.it
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Users mailing list
> > Users at lists.geany.org
> > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users at lists.geany.org
> https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users


I use to mark and paste as described below:

1- Select a text and let it selected.
2- Go with mouse cursor to any place of line before the end of line.
3- Click with wheel, but without clicking before with left mouse.
4- It insert the text where is the mouse cursor.

That is handy when working with programs.

Cheers.

-- 
Jose Angel Navarro Cortes
email: janc at janc.es
web: http://janc.es/
Usuario Linux: #49178