[Konsole-devel] Text selection w/ mouse-aware apps

[Robert Knight]

> Can you try running Midnight Commander in a tab and see if select works
> for you (will need to hold down shift)?

Yes - works fine for me.  Do you see the correct cursor when switching
between mouse aware and non-mouse aware applications - ie. an I-Beam
in the shell and a standard arrow in mc.

Regards,
Robert.

2009/6/1 Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Robert Knight wrote:
>
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> Sorry, I forgot that shift was required under KDE 3.  I do use Vim and
>> text selection with the mouse works for me in KDE 4 (using Konsole's
>> text selection, not Vim's own).
>>
>>> I cannot select text under any circumstances.
>>
>> Before you mentioned only mouse-aware applications, are you saying
>> that it happens when just running a shell for example?
>
> No, poor choice of words.  that should be "I cannot select text from
> Midnight Commander under any circumstances".
>
> Can you try running Midnight Commander in a tab and see if select works
> for you (will need to hold down shift)?
>
>>> There are reports of similar problems with Vim, BTW (I do not use it).
>>
>> As far as I know, none of these reports have reached KDE's bug
>> tracker.  Do you have links to those reports?
>
> I opened an issue on the Ubuntu bug tracker:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382162
>
> Another user confirms the problem and mentions Vim as being of issue.
>
> Steve
>
>
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