mr. Ed: Copying-and-pasting with Ctrl-C Ctrl-V (technical term "CLIPBOARD") is completely separate to copying-and-pasting using mouse select and middle-click paste (technical term "PRIMARY").
This bug is that left-click in a window is clearing the selection *and* clearing PRIMARY, rather than just clearing the selection. My original belief on the times that I accidental did this was that I'd just done something wrong, but it does indeed appear to be the application/Gtk+ widgets that are broken in this respect. ** Description changed: - 1) Select some text. + Left-click clears the visible selection *and* PRIMARY buffer contents, + rather than just clearing the visible selection. This means that a user + middle-click pasting finds the text has been dropped and that they can't + paste what they expected to paste without going back and reselecting in + the previous application again. + + 1) Select some text. 2) Click somewhere on the document. - 3) Click mouse wheel. + 3) Click mouse wheel. - Text should be pasted like it works elsewhere in X. However, nothing is - pasted in gedit. + Using the PRIMARY mechanism, text should be pasted like it works + elsewhere in X. However, nothing is pasted in gedit. - Ctrl-C, ctrl-V copy-pasting seems to work within gedit. Using gedit on - Breezy. + Using the CLIPBOARD mechanism, Ctrl-C, ctrl-V copy-pasting seems to work + within gedit, so this is unrelated. ** Summary changed: - Copy-paste with mouse wheel fails + Left-click clears PRIMARY buffer selection (Copy-paste with middle-button/mouse wheel fails) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/34629 Title: Left-click clears PRIMARY buffer selection (Copy-paste with middle-button/mouse wheel fails) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
