Re: Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

On Sat, 2 Nov 2024 17:15:28 -0500 Vasily 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

Re: Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

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 wrote: > > Carsten, >

Re: Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

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 wrote: > > Vladimir, > > Thank you f

Re: Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

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 expecte

Re: Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

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 backwar

Re: Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

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 said: Hello Recently I noticed that if highlight a

Re: Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

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.