[Konsole-devel] [Bug 174562] Selection in konsole is not cleared when another application takes over the selection buffer.

[Klaus S. Madsen]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174562





--- Comment #6 from Klaus S. Madsen <kde hjernemadsen org>  2009-04-29 08:44:23 ---
It might be by design, I don't know. If it is, it behaves differently that eg.
konqueror, kopete and most other programs, which clears the selection when a
new selection is made.

It makes sense, as X actually have two ways to copy/paste. The selection
buffer, which you use when you copy text by selecting it, and pasting by middle
clicking. And the clipboard which is where the text ends up when you actively
copy it after selecting (eg. by pressing CTRL+C).

So if the selection is cleared when a new selection is made, you have a visual
cue as to what is currently in the selection buffer, by simply looking at which
text is marked on your screen.

I get caught by this a few times each day, believing that my selection buffer
still contains the text I can see is marked in a konsole, even though its been
replaced, leading me to paste the wrong text.

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