Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

[Carsten Haitzler]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2024 17:15:28 -0500 Vasily <vasil_tik at yahoo.com> said:

> Hello
> 
> Recently I noticed that if highlight a text backward, first couple of
> characters don't get into the buffer. It can be observed for example in any
> web browser or text editors. My OS is Ubuntu 22.04 XFCE without Wayland.
> Any thoughts will be appreciated.

It is each client that is responsible for this, not X itself - highlighting is
a local client issue. all the client does it take ownership of the appropriate
selection. when later you paste - the paste target asks the selection owner for
the data. the owner you highlighted in is responsible for delivering it. How it
was highlighted to begin with is entirely on that end, so I assume you've found
a bug in a toolkit used by the apps above to handle all of this (probably GTK).


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