karlwilbur
June 18th, 2008, 03:13 PM
I have somehow managed to enable some auto-copy feature of gnome and I cannot turn it off. It is driving me nuts.
When I select a block of text, it automatically gets copied to the clipboard. I can see how this _could_ be a good thing, but not for me since I usually select another block of text to be replaced from the clipboard contents only to find the Ctrl+v now pastes the unwanted text. I am a programmer and I usually stick to the keyboard; a "keyboard-centric" user. For me, copying a block of code from a file usually involves holding shift while manipulating the arrow keys. But with this feature enabled, as soon as something is selected (a character, a word, a line) it gets copy to the clipboard and a new select process begins. This just does not work for me.
This is happening in more than one application (GEdit, Komodo, Firefox, Thunderbird...just to name a few) so it is not application specific. Must be a gnome feature.
I am running Ubuntu 8.04.
I know that there must be something that I am doing to enable it (hot-key, kybd & mouse combo, etc.), I just don't know that is. This is not the first time that this has happened. I have had it come and go, sometimes weeks between instances. Meaning that I accidentally enabled this feature and just as accidentally disabled it. So based on this I know that it can be disabled.
I think that this all started when I upgraded to Hardy. FWIW.
I am a fairly competent Linux user and have been using Linux exclusively on all my my laptops and desktops for years. I switched to Ubuntu for everything (laptops, desktops, servers) about at 6.10.
That said, this is only happening on my primary desktop. Everything else is just moving along normally.
I have looked though gconf-editor and cannot see a key that would disable this feature.
I am usually able to sort this kind of thing out but I am totally at a loss here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
When I select a block of text, it automatically gets copied to the clipboard. I can see how this _could_ be a good thing, but not for me since I usually select another block of text to be replaced from the clipboard contents only to find the Ctrl+v now pastes the unwanted text. I am a programmer and I usually stick to the keyboard; a "keyboard-centric" user. For me, copying a block of code from a file usually involves holding shift while manipulating the arrow keys. But with this feature enabled, as soon as something is selected (a character, a word, a line) it gets copy to the clipboard and a new select process begins. This just does not work for me.
This is happening in more than one application (GEdit, Komodo, Firefox, Thunderbird...just to name a few) so it is not application specific. Must be a gnome feature.
I am running Ubuntu 8.04.
I know that there must be something that I am doing to enable it (hot-key, kybd & mouse combo, etc.), I just don't know that is. This is not the first time that this has happened. I have had it come and go, sometimes weeks between instances. Meaning that I accidentally enabled this feature and just as accidentally disabled it. So based on this I know that it can be disabled.
I think that this all started when I upgraded to Hardy. FWIW.
I am a fairly competent Linux user and have been using Linux exclusively on all my my laptops and desktops for years. I switched to Ubuntu for everything (laptops, desktops, servers) about at 6.10.
That said, this is only happening on my primary desktop. Everything else is just moving along normally.
I have looked though gconf-editor and cannot see a key that would disable this feature.
I am usually able to sort this kind of thing out but I am totally at a loss here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.