On 16/11/14 13:18, listreader wrote:
Howdy...
Desktop is LXDE (GTK version that ships in 13.2, not QT version).
Using the mouse or keyboard to select an area of text does not "stick". A fraction of a second after selecting the area, the highlight disappears and the selected area is no longer marked.
Example: after mouse-selecting an area of text to delete from a writable document, before I can press the 'delete' key the selection area is unmarked and if I press 'delete' key at this point the only thing deleted is the spot where the cursor is, at the end of the area I intended to delete.
Apparently the selected area HAS been copied to the clipboard (it's visible in parcellite) and then deselected in the actual document. This is different from the expected action and different from previous versions. It's also extremely annoying.
Question: Is this a bug, or an intended new 'feature', or simply a misconfiguration somewhere in my setup?
Thanks in advance for any clues.
Ralph
I can confirm this issue. I installed openSUSE 13.2 with LXDE on a spare old machine which I've now found myself having to use temporarily as my main machine due to a hardware fault. I'm currently needing to do regular edits to a few basic text documents so it's bloody annoying. I assume you're talking about Leafpad? I guess I should download an alternative text editor and see if the issue persists. Here in Thunderbird as I type this it seems there's no problem. I use keyboard text selection shortcuts regularly, but just to check I tried using the touchpad on this laptop and there it seems the highlighted text NEVER sticks, not even for the fraction of a second like it does when selecting with keys. Having Leafpad installed for a long time on another openSUSE (12.3) desktop with XFCE, I can confirm the issue does not appear there. But I won't be able to verify it with the same version of openSUSE. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org