On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Nate Bargmann <[email protected]> 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 >> > > -- > > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > > Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us > _______________________________________________ > Geany mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
