Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

[Robert Heller]

It can be 'tricky' to highlight text of a link or text tight up against 
images.  If the application is binding another function to the left mouse 
button in addition or instead of highlighting, this cn make things hard.

At Sun, 3 Nov 2024 14:24:40 -0600 Vasily <vasil_tik at yahoo.com> 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 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.
> >>
> 
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