Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024, Vasily wrote:

> Vladimir,
>
> Thank you for your suggestion.
> I made a few tests and it looks like there are only few apps that drop first 
> (and sometime second) character of highlighted text
> One of them is chromium (I am not surprised).
> Kwrite, Lɜafpad, Firefox works as expected

I am curious - besides chromium which other apps drop the characters ? Is 
gimp affected ?

thank you

Vladimir Dergachev

>
> I think this question can be closed.
>
> Regards
> Vasil.
>
> On 03.11.2024 13:19, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>> 
>> I checked on Ubuntu 22.04 with KDE and I do not see the effect with kwrite.
>> 
>> Does kwrite work well for you ? You don't need to switch to KDE window 
>> manager to use kwrite.
>> 
>> best
>> 
>> Vladimir Dergachev
>> 
>> On Sat, 2 Nov 2024, Vasily wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> 
>