On 8 May 2014 16:30, Alessandro Pasotti <apaso...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-05-08 2:23 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com>: >> >> On 7 May 2014 22:36, Alessandro Pasotti <apaso...@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@lists.geany.org > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users