finrir
finrir

Reputation: 21

How to select text in gedit

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

Answers (1)

codingjeremy
codingjeremy

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

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