[Users] [Bug 4258] X selection is cleared when highlight is deselected

[Dave Howorth]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:50:33 -0000
Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:46:48 +0100
> Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote: 
> 
> > I just tried using gedit as a representative GTK application and I
> > don't see the 'faulty' behaviour.  
> 
> The same problem is in gedit too. Select some text in gedit, click on
> a blank line, try to paste with the middle click mouse button.
> Nothing is pasted.

That's not the case on my system. Purely in gedit, select text, move
somewhere else and mid-click-paste works as you'd expect. Then
left-click elsewhere in the text, go to yet another place and
mid-click-paste works exactly as before. Obviously if I select some
different text (click and extend) then that replaces the selection. But
simply clicking somewhere else doesn't deselect though it does remove
the highlight. This is gedit 3.22.1.

FWIW, lxterm behaves the same. I've no idea what toolkit that uses.

> If the selection remains highlighted then you can paste the primary
> as much as you want. As soon as you click somewhere else it's lost.

No, as above.

> This is the same in claws-mail.

Yes, it's the same but not as you describe.

> I spent some time trying to find a solution, but failed. Therefore, I
> agree that it is a GTK problem.

Could be.
libgtk-2 V2.24.32-lp150.2.3
libgtk-3 V3.22.30-lp150.3.13.1

> with regards
> 
> Paul
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