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GTK text selection issues

Up-to-date Arch, GTK2 2.24.24-1, GTK3 3.12.2-1, XMonad 0.11-61.

In GTK apps, I'm having some really strange text field issues. If I select some of the text with the keyboard or mouse, then try to type over it, the selected text immediately becomes unselected. Sometimes it does it on the first character, sometimes it takes two.

Apps I've tried:
Pidgin
GnuCash
gtkpod

Doesn't happen in terminal or Qt applications. I don't even know where to start on this one.

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Re: GTK text selection issues

Did text selection previously work correctly? What have you change on your computer since then? What theme do you use?

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Re: GTK text selection issues

Yeah, used to work just fine. It must have started happening a few days ago, so presumably it's some package upgrade causing it. I'm using Adwaita, but it happens with all themes.

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Re: GTK text selection issues

You listed both GTK2 and GTK3 application that have the bug. Both libraries haven't had updates in months.

Does the problem happen in other window managers as well as Xmonad?

Are you using any special input method editor (IME), such as SCIM or Anthy or whatever?

You can either post the list of packages you've updated since it last worked here, or you can just start rolling back packages one by one yourself until the problem (hopefully) goes away.

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Re: GTK text selection issues

I was hoping that someone else was seeing this too, so I guess I'll live with it as there's no way I could possibly spend the time cherry-picking packages that I might have upgraded in the past few months. This does look somewhat promising, though: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad … 13504.html

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Re: GTK text selection issues

Awww, you didn't answer any of my questions.

Well, good luck then.