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Bug 245665

Summary:	selecting a string effectively copies the string
Product:	cnd	Reporter:	tbrunhoff <tbrunhoff>
Component:	Editor	Assignee:	Vladimir Voskresensky <vv159170>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P1
Version:	8.0.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description tbrunhoff 2014-07-14 22:30:20 UTC

Open a file for edit, select any string, but don't copy it.  Then move anywhere else and paste: it pastes whatever was selected. Somehow the act of section causes the selected string to move to the copy buffer.


Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201407090001)
Updates: Updates available
Java: 1.7.0_45; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 24.45-b08
Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.7.0_45-b18
System: Linux version 3.14.8-100.fc19.x86_64 running on i386; UTF-8; en_US (nb)
User directory: /home/toddb/.netbeans/dev
Cache directory: /home/toddb/.cache/netbeans/dev

Comment 1 Vladimir Voskresensky 2014-07-15 14:15:22 UTC

Todd, I can not reproduce on my system.
Is anything like VNC is involved? 
Or may be your Linux window manager was upgraded and smth like 
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/119043/how-can-i-disable-selection-highlight-auto-copying
has happened?

Comment 2 tbrunhoff 2014-07-15 21:45:57 UTC

You are correct. Two things occurred together: an incremental update on fedora 19, and an install of the NB version cited above. Blaming it on NB seemed most likely, but it appears to have been the system update, possibly changing the settings in Klipper, which is probably similar to the link you provided above. I don't know what or why the Klipper settings were changed, but after fiddling with them a bit, the problem went away.  Thanks for the pointers.