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

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Robert Knight wrote:

>> 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.

Yes.  It's an I-Beam for a shell (where select works) and changes to an 
arrow in mc (where select does not).

I wonder what the difference is between our environments.  What 
distribution are you using?  What is the version of konsole and mc?

I have:

konsole 2.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2)
mc 4.6.2-pre1

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

How are you starting mc?  From the command line of a konsole shell? 
Unlike KDE3, there was no preexisting menu choice for mc and I created one 
myself.  The startup command is:

/usr/bin/mc

Steve


> 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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