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

[Robert Knight]

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

I am using Ubuntu Jaunty, midnight commander is the version which
comes with Jaunty (4.6.2-pre1) and Konsole is KDE trunk (pre-4.3)
compiled from source, as is the whole of Qt/KDE desktop.  I tested
with the Ubuntu-provided version of Konsole as well (KDE 4.2.2) and
could not reproduce the problem.  I tried launching mc:

- By running 'mc' in an existing shell
- Starting a new Konsole window from the terminal using "konsole -e /usr/bin/mc"
- Creating a new profile which runs /usr/bin/mc when it starts

Did you change any other options other than the command when you
created your midnight commander profile?  Can you try running mc from
the stock profile which Konsole ships with.

Regards,
Robert.

2009/6/2 Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>:
> 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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