Reputation: 21
This only happens in gedit.
I am running Ubuntu. I am not able to left click and drag to select lines of text in gedit.
I can't copy or cut code I write in gedit to move it around.
I can right click and drag to select text from my web browser or the terminal and paste it into gedit.
I guess it must be a setting in gedit but I can't find anything that fixes the problem. How do I turn on the ability to left click and drag to highlight text written in gedit, so that I can copy and past desired text?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 4251
Reputation: 5741
By killing the app and restarting it, the copy and paste started working again. I think it was a plugin fail.
I had the same issue, and most the solutions said it was something related to plugins (none of which I had changed). However, the solution above seemed to work for me. :)
Upvotes: 3