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Bug 245665 - selecting a string effectively copies the string
Summary: selecting a string effectively copies the string
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: cnd
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Editor (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0.1
Hardware: PC Linux
: P1 normal (vote)
Assignee: Vladimir Voskresensky
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Reported: 2014-07-14 22:30 UTC by tbrunhoff
Modified: 2014-07-15 21:46 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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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.