Linus789
commented
1 year ago Thanks, I have been able to replicate this issue on my system. I don’t think there is a way to work around this problem, except using the regular clipboard only. Since mostly GTK applications seem to be affected, I think the issue is found on their side.
xadips
The primary selection mode breaks the selection system.
The primary and both selection systems (perhaps because it involves the primary) break the selection system and make it very uncomfortable to select text in some applications, especially those based on GTK, e.g. Thunar and Inkscape, other applications such as Chrome are not affected.
Perhaps a video will illustrate the situation better:
https://github.com/Linus789/wl-clip-persist/assets/65132831/af5a1ba9-4918-492f-bff9-efa8262ee51c
As you can see in the video, without running the program, the selection system works normally, just as if you run the program using the regular option.
But once you start using the primary mode or both, it becomes impossible to select text, because once you release the cursor to finalize the selection, it disappears.
I am not an English speaker, this was translated using a program on the Internet, I apologize for any inaccuracies.