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Xfrun4 affects copy & paste behavior
Status:
RESOLVED: INVALID
Product:
Xfce-utils

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Description sota2060 2011-11-05 19:06:29 CET
When using the mouse to copy and paste with marking text and pressing the middle mouse button Xfrun4 confuses the clipboard.

Example:
- mark some text in a web browser or similar
- press [Alt]+[F2]
- type the name of your editor application and hit enter
- press middle mouse button in your editor

excepted behavior: "some text" gets pasted
actual behavior: "application name" gets pasted

Using the context menu or [Ctrl]+[C]/[V] still works as expected, but the behavior mentioned above is quite annoying anyway.


(Using Arch Linux and xfce-utils 4.8.3-1)
Comment 1 Mike Massonnet editbugs 2011-11-05 21:54:40 CET
Xfrun4 is being replaced by xfce4-appfinder for the next version of Xfce. I can't reproduce the issue with xfce4-appfinder, although I can confirm it with Xfrun4.

If you install the development version of xfce4-appfinder[1], you can bind Alt-f2 to 'xfce4-appfinder --collapsed'.

[1] http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.9/
Comment 2 tjabo 2012-01-06 10:22:05 CET
this are good news. the insertion of the progam name in xfrun is annoying!

I was here to file a bug for that :)
Comment 3 Amic Frouvelle 2012-02-22 18:08:56 CET
(In reply to comment #1)
> Xfrun4 is being replaced by xfce4-appfinder for the next version of Xfce. I
> can't reproduce the issue with xfce4-appfinder, although I can confirm it with
> Xfrun4.
> 
> If you install the development version of xfce4-appfinder[1], you can bind
> Alt-f2 to 'xfce4-appfinder --collapsed'.
> 
> [1] http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.9/

I can reproduce this bug with xfce4-appfinder, version 4.9.3.
Comment 4 Mike Massonnet editbugs 2012-02-23 09:28:23 CET
While a text selection is made it's actually normal the primary clipboard content changes, it's the expected behavior.

appfinder now also supports some completion magic where the text you didn't type appears and is selected.
Comment 5 Amic Frouvelle 2012-02-23 10:19:57 CET
(In reply to comment #4)
> While a text selection is made it's actually normal the primary clipboard
> content changes, it's the expected behavior.
> 
> appfinder now also supports some completion magic where the text you didn't
> type appears and is selected.

While it is maybe the expected behavior, you must recognize that it is very unconvenient sometimes… So an option to remove this behavior would be really appreciated.
Comment 6 Mike Massonnet editbugs 2012-02-25 11:56:35 CET
Feel free to make a request for xfce4-appfinder, for xfrun4 you can forget about it, since it has a very small probably to see a new release :)

I asked on IRC...
11:53 <+m8t> NSchermer: JPohlmann: appfinder auto-selects text with the auto-completion feature, "some" users
             might not wish that feature to avoid "losing" the primary clipboard selection
11:54 <+m8t> might be it a good idea to have an option for that?
11:54 <+m8t> a hidden one f.e.

Bug #8111

Reported by:
sota2060
Reported on: 2011-11-05
Last modified on: 2012-02-25

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Assignee:
Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail)
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