The primary selection mode breaks the selection system.

[ALizarazoTellez]

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:

Kooha-2023-05-26-22-02-40.mp4

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.

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I am not an English speaker, this was translated using a program on the Internet, I apologize for any inaccuracies.

[Linus789]

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]

Do you have any particular issue that you found on this topic, couldn't find any related issues on gtk side.