Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

[Robert Heller]

One tricky bit relates to pointer resolution, timing, and human hand-eye 
coordination issues.  Also, with some text fonts, it can be hard to see where 
one letter ends and the next begins.  And then there can be pixel roundoff 
error.

At Sun, 3 Nov 2024 14:24:10 -0600 Vasily <vasil_tik at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Carsten,
> 
> Thank you very much for this great answer
> I did not know that an application is responsible for providing highlighted content to copy.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> On 03.11.2024 04:54, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > 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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