Can't mark text for copy/paste (Solved)

[msm]

For some reason it doesn't seem possible to mark text for copy/pasting. I usually hold down the left mouse button on my laptop whilst using the trackpad to roll over the text to be copied. But now when I hold down the left button a pop-up menu appears - the same menu as when clicking on the right mouse button,. Anyone know what could have caused this? I don't see anything unusual under Mouse Preferences.

[Vermind]

Hey,
I have the same issue since yesterday,
i.e. marking/painting/highlighting text with the mouse or keyboard or shortcuts causes the text to highlight, then un-highlight. If I highlight the same text twice, (for example ctrl-a ctrl-a) it works, but single highlight does not work.
The issue occurs also with automatic text highlight, such as when opening the Mint Menu and typing. My new search in the mint menu will be added to the end of the previous one, not replacing it, making it necessary to hold backspace and erase the previous search first before making a new one.
I think the same issue causes the need to copy or cut a file or folder twice as well. In nautilus, a single copy command does not enable the paste, but ctrl-c twice in a row works.

I am investigating why this is happening. I recently downgraded from direct debian testing to Mint testing.

Update: My issue was caused by the parcellite clipboard manager. I removed it and highlighting works.

[msm]

I'm at work now, but I'll check when I come home if I have the parcellite clipboard manager installed. If it is I'll remove it to see if that helps. Thanks for your reply!

[Stanie]

Hey,
I have the same issue since yesterday,
i.e. marking/painting/highlighting text with the mouse or keyboard or shortcuts causes the text to highlight, then un-highlight. If I highlight the same text twice, (for example ctrl-a ctrl-a) it works, but single highlight does not work.
The issue occurs also with automatic text highlight, such as when opening the Mint Menu and typing. My new search in the mint menu will be added to the end of the previous one, not replacing it, making it necessary to hold backspace and erase the previous search first before making a new one.
I think the same issue causes the need to copy or cut a file or folder twice as well. In nautilus, a single copy command does not enable the paste, but ctrl-c twice in a row works.

I am investigating why this is happening. I recently downgraded from direct debian testing to Mint testing.

Update: My issue was caused by the parcellite clipboard manager. I removed it and highlighting works.

Thank you!!! I have had the same issue for a couple of weeks (see http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=199&t=81913) - removing parcellite solved it.

BTW you can still use parcellite, just not this rc version from lmde latest/incoming repo. I now use the old stable version 0.9.2 from debian stable and have no trouble with copy/paste or highlighting the text whatsoever
But if you know of any other good clipboard manager, let me know. I have tried lots of them both in lmde and mint main edition: glipper, clipper, glippy, diodon, clipit, even klipper in gnome desktop. I like parcellite most, because it is very lightweight without many dependencies and it can be launched without tray icon - that's how I use it.

[Vermind]

Actually, I downloaded the parcellite deb from the site at http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/?page_id=10 . It seems to work well and is the latest. My current version is Parcellite 1.0.2rc2.

[Stanie]

Actually, I downloaded the parcellite deb from the site at http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/?page_id=10 . It seems to work well and is the latest. My current version is Parcellite 1.0.2rc2.

Yeah, I know. I played a little with the latest 1.0.2rc5 from SoufceForge. It works also well. But in the end I decided to install the latest stable version 1.0.1 - just in case...

[msm]

Jeez, this is embarrassing. Just found out that the mouse settings were set to left handed which caused the issue for me. Don't know how that happened as I don't recall having set the settings to left-handed, but I guess I must have at some stage

[Vermind]

Jeez, this is embarrassing. Just found out that the mouse settings were set to left handed which caused the issue for me. Don't know how that happened as I don't recall having set the settings to left-handed, but I guess I must have at some stage

Great that you found the cause. Now I don't feel so bad accidentally hijacking your thread

[msm]

Jeez, this is embarrassing. Just found out that the mouse settings were set to left handed which caused the issue for me. Don't know how that happened as I don't recall having set the settings to left-handed, but I guess I must have at some stage

Great that you found the cause. Now I don't feel so bad accidentally hijacking your thread

No problem at all. Looks like other people benefited from it.