Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

[Vasily]

Carsten,

Thank you very much for this great answer
I did not know that an application is responsible for providing highlighted content to copy.

Regards.

On 03.11.2024 04:54, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2024 17:15:28 -0500 Vasily <vasil_tik at yahoo.com> said:
> 
>> Hello
>>
>> Recently I noticed that if highlight a text backward, first couple of
>> characters don't get into the buffer. It can be observed for example in any
>> web browser or text editors. My OS is Ubuntu 22.04 XFCE without Wayland.
>> Any thoughts will be appreciated.
> 
> It is each client that is responsible for this, not X itself - highlighting is
> a local client issue. all the client does it take ownership of the appropriate
> selection. when later you paste - the paste target asks the selection owner for
> the data. the owner you highlighted in is responsible for delivering it. How it
> was highlighted to begin with is entirely on that end, so I assume you've found
> a bug in a toolkit used by the apps above to handle all of this (probably GTK).
> 
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