GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 591607
Selection in GtkEntry is changing when going below/above the entry (as if it was a multiline text)
Last modified: 2017-08-25 02:07:30 UTC
When you start selecting text on my Ubuntu, Gnome machine, as soon as you go a bit below or above the line (or widget), it unselects what you just selected, and if there is any text after the beginning of your selection, it selects that text instead, annoying me much. For example, let's try to select a piece of URL in firefox location bar. 1- type in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi 2- Try to select http://bugzilla.gnome.org by clicking next the "g", then move to the start of the address bar, then move your mouse below and left to the address bar. It will highlight "simple-bug-guide.cgi". It doesn't do that in Microsoft Windows, and I appreciate it. It seems to me like it's behaving like every 1 line of text, is a multiline paragraph, and trying to select the rest of the paragraph. Other information:
What application do you talk about? Please provide an exact step-by-step description so I can reproduce.
It's many applications under ubuntu. My guess is that it's impacting a GUI development framework. For example, it's doing that with Firefox. If you go to the System => Preferences => Keyboard, and type the example above in the "try the settings" input widget, it will also cause it. It is very annoying when you are quickly trying to select something from a specific point to the beginning, without ending exactly on the same Y coordinates. I will record this and try to attach it to the bug.
Created attachment 140619 [details] Video of the issue
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 626696 ***