Further notes:
- It's not just while focusing into the window, but that's when the
behaviour is most annoying.
- The problem is worst in the "end of line" space to the right of text
in the terminal. In that area, any mouse movement (seemingly even a
sub-pixel movement) will cause a selection an
This behaviour must be inherent in some other GUI library, because it's
not apparent in the gnome-terminal code.
I use the highlight copy/paste buffer so extensively that this is a very
serious usability issue for me. I finally got fed up and installed
konsole. While it did install some 191MB of
