Bug 763237 – Text appears to be deselected (though is not) when holding down CTRL if the "Show location of cursor" option is on

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Bug 763237 - Text appears to be deselected (though is not) when holding down CTRL if the "Show location of cursor" option is on


Summary:	Text appears to be deselected (though is not) when holding down CTRL if the "...


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	gnome-tweak-tool
Classification:	Applications
Component:	general
Version:	3.18.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal minor
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	GNOME Tweak Tool maintainer(s)
QA Contact:	GNOME Tweak Tool maintainer(s)

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Reported:	2016-03-07 14:47 UTC by Inactive account
Modified:	2018-01-24 15:14 UTC

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GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	3.17/3.18

Description Inactive account 2016-03-07 14:47:58 UTC

I recently enabled the option in the gnome-tweak-tool called "Show location of cursor" so now when I press CTRL I get a nice animation coming from my cursor. However if I have any text selected when I press CTRL, until I have released the button, the text appears as normal and appears to be deselected though I believe it is not, if it is, then it just reselect when I release the button.

And this becomes rather distracting when trying to copy text as it disappears when you press CTRL... And it's not just for text, it seems to do the same for anything that is selected, such as a text box or something.

I initially reported this here bug thought I should also do so upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-tweak-tool/+bug/1538248

OS Information:

    No LSB modules are available.
    Distributor ID: Ubuntu
    Description: Ubuntu 15.10
    Release: 15.10
    Codename: wily
    Flavour: GNOME
    GNOME Version: 3.18

Package Information:

    gnome-tweak-tool:
      Installed: 3.18.0-1~wily1
      Candidate: 3.18.0-1~wily1
      Version table:
     *** 3.18.0-1~wily1 0
            500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
            100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
         3.16.2-2 0
            500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages

Comment 1 Inactive account 2016-03-07 14:49:04 UTC

I am using the pre-installed Numix theme.

Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-24 15:14:36 UTC

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