GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 519343
Text copied is lost after left clicking and cannot be pasted pressing middle-click
Last modified: 2013-04-06 16:32:29 UTC
Many other apps (epiphany, gnome-terminal, seamonkey, firefox...) allow to use middle click for pasting a selected file, but gedit doesn't allow that and forces user to always click on "copy" and click on "paste" I think that gedit should paste the selected text when pressing middle mouse click like other apps do Thanks a lot Other information:
It does.
It doesn't work for me :-/
Steve, seems that it only fails when, between selecting text to copy and pasting with middle click I left click for selecting where I want to paste the text: 1. Select text to copy 2. Left click where you want to paste -> Nothing will be pasted If you select the text and DIRECTLY paste with middle click it works, but I am unable to decide where to paste the text Thanks
This is the usual behaviour, it is actually a bug in GTK+.
You are true, this would explain why I have the same problem when copying to location bar in epiphany but not when doing it on gnome-terminal or in this box where I am writting now Thanks :-)
Can someone confirm this bug? I might want to try to fix this if I can for this bug is really a problem for me. i'm used to the selection clipboard a lot and this is one of the only reasons I keep using KWrite and don't switch to gedit.
I suppose this is a duplicate of bug 333514
More precisely, a duplicate of bug 584236
Bug #584236 is more recent, but has more activity. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 584236 ***