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Bug 417573

Summary:	Ctrl+Click selection fails when "Show position of pointer" Gnome option is enabled.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Mark Booth <mark.booth>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	ericwill, krzysztof.daniel, pwebster
Version:	4.2.2	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Mark Booth

2013-09-19 05:10:35 EDT

It seems that if the Gnome preference "Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed" is enabled then multi-selection fails in Eclipse.

This means that with this option enabled, you can't (for instance) use Compare with each other on files are directories which are not adjacent.

How to reproduce:

* Enable "Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed" (On my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 installation this is located in: System > Preferences > Mouse > General tab, Locate Pointer section)
* Launch eclipse in a workspace with more than three files or directories
* Click on the first file or directory.
* Attempt to Ctrl+Click on the third file or directory

Comment 1 Krzysztof Daniel

2013-09-19 06:04:30 EDT

Does it work for other applications like nautilus?

Comment 2 Mark Booth

2013-09-19 09:27:59 EDT

Yes, nautilus allows multiple selection just fine when this option is enabled, but it does cause problems in other applications. For instance the NX client doesn't pass Ctrl to the remote desktop at all (See http://www.nomachine.com/tr/view.php?id=TR03G02202 ) and I have seen reports that VirtualBox and Wine suffers (or suffered) similar problems.

The fact that it doesn't pose a problem for nautilus does suggest that this isn't purely a gnome problem and that there must be a work around.

Comment 3 Eric Williams

2018-09-10 14:03:46 EDT

I don't see this feature even available in GNOME anymore.