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Bug 143544 - gnome-terminal mouse selection overwrites explicit "Edit->Copy"
gnome-terminal mouse selection overwrites explicit "Edit->Copy"
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123844
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.11.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
: 147370 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-06-01 21:24 UTC by Andy Wang
Modified: 2005-07-26 19:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Andy Wang 2004-06-01 21:24:56 UTC 
1) Select something with the mouse in a gnome terminal
2) Explicitly choose Edit->Copy or contextMenu->Copy
3) Paste into another app (I used gedit) using Edit-Paste or contextMenu->paste
  This should paste what you think you're copying.
4) Now select something else in the gnome-terminal window but do not explicitly
copy.
5) Paste into the gedit window using edit->paste or contextMenu->paste.  
It will paste the Primary X selection to be pasted instead of the Clipboard's
contents.
Comment 1 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2004-06-02 11:00:37 UTC 
Indeed. I wonder why no one say this before... This is happening in vte, so I'll
move it.

Nalin,
This is due to the fact that vte terminals have only one pvt->selection: if I
select some text, and do an explicit copy, the text gets copied into
terminal->pvt->selection and vte_terminal_copy_cb will take it from there when
the selection gets requested. But if now I select something else but without an
explicit copy, vte_terminal_button_release will call vte_terminal_copy(terminal,
GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY) which will overwrite terminal->pvt->selection, so that if
vte_terminal_copy_cb gets called now in a request for the CLIPBOARD, it'll send
the PRIMARY... (If you run xclipboard while you do all this, you won't see this,
because it'll be getting the CLIPBOARD so that when you get it you don't get it
from terminal->pvt->selection but from it's own cache) Not terribly hard to fix,
I guess...
Comment 2 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2004-07-24 21:26:34 UTC 
*** Bug 147370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Michele Baldessari 2005-07-26 19:08:52 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123844 ***