Subject: Re: New Bug: #920
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 16:59:11 CDT
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Paul Egli wrote:
> I've logged a new bug, #920. This one describes how, when you select text
> in one window, your selection in other windows gets canceled. This is
> especially annoying in cases where you are changing selected text in the
> document from a separate dialog such as Spell Check (bug 597) or the Font
> dialog (bug 920).
>
> I have noticed similar behavior in other applications on my Linux machine,
> so I'm wondering: Are these valid bugs, or is there an XWindows setting
> that I'm not aware of which I could modify in order to fix this behavior?
>
This is deliberate behaviour put in by hj. The idea is that you only have
one valid highlighted area so you know what the contents of your X
clipboard is. So if you use the middle button to deposit the contents in
another window you know what should appear.
Cheers
Martin
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