Bug 196602

Summary: regression: rectangle selection mode doesn't work
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Constantin Berzan <cberzan>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Bugs <konsole-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Constantin Berzan 2009-06-15 12:47:01 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.90)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Konsole has a very neat feature, where Ctrl+Alt+drag lets one select a rectangle of text (instead of being restricted to selecting entire lines).  This feature has stopped working for me in KDE 4.3beta2. I have first noticed the problem on the alternative screen (the one used for less, vim etc.), but now I see that it affects the normal screen as well.

The behaviour I see is as follows:
* ctrl+alt+very_fast_drag starts a rectangle select, but then it gets stuck and stops following the mouse;
* ctrl+alt+normal_speed_drag does not start a rectangle selection at all.

In 4.2 rectangle selection was working perfectly both in the normal and in the alternative screen.  It would be great if this feature were brought back :) Thanks for the great work on Konsole for KDE4!
Comment 1 Constantin Berzan 2009-06-16 15:13:37 UTC 
Seems to have been a side-effect of running Konsole for ~7 days on end.  Restarted Konsole and everything works fine.  Sorry for the noise!