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I'm running ubuntu11.04, and python3 with tkinter. I've yet to check on a windows config, but whenever I have a mainloop() running and a root window open with tkinter, I can't highlight text in text edit/ gui manager stuff. It doesn't leave me helpless, but copy/paste is a fairly integral part of my efficiency when navigating and coding. Has anyone else experienced this? Anyone know a fix?

-Cheers, Chris

Ponml
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  • Your question is a bit unclear. What do you mean by "text edit/ gui manager stuff"? Are you saying that when you create an empty tkinter widnow that it clears the selection in non-tk windows? Can you give us the absolutely smallest example of a tkinter application that causes this behavior? – Bryan Oakley Jul 21 '11 at 20:50
  • Having just a basic `root = Tk()`, will disable the ability for me to highlight text (as in click, and drag over text to highlight for copying/editing/etc) in a text editor. I can't do any of this with an instance of Tk() open. I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 running python3 and I, for example, will not be able to highlight inside Ubuntu's basic Text Editor. – Ponml Jul 27 '11 at 16:55

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This sounds like a bug in whatever window manager you are using and/or in that specific version of ubuntu. This is a problem that hasn't been reported on any other platform, or on any other versions of linux.

Bryan Oakley
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