Upgrading from KDE 4.10.4 to 4.11 beta 1 (4.10.80) breaks text selection in Midnight Commander. Previously (in KDE 4.10.4 and older,) I could hold down Shift and select text with the mouse. This is no longer possible; holding select and dragging the mouse will not select text. As a work around, Shift+double-click still works and it correctly selects the current word. Holding down the mouse button after the double-click will then allow me to extend the selection range past the initial word. This happens with both the Slang as well as NCurses versions of Midnight Commander. Reproducible: Always KDE 4.10.80, Qt 4.8.4, Midnight Commander 4.8.8.
Thanks - with new shift+click to extend selection this caused this bug
Git commit e5b7480966f3121f4e1042648e29a74b9c29b2e9 by Kurt Hindenburg. Committed on 23/06/2013 at 16:37. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'master'. Fix 'extend Selection' bug for apps not interested in mouse New feature in 4.11 allows Shift+Click to extend the selection. However, for programs not interested in mouse (vim, mc, etc) this causes issues. Fix is to ignore extending selection for those apps. FIXED-IN: 4.11 M +3 -2 src/TerminalDisplay.cpp http://commits.kde.org/konsole/e5b7480966f3121f4e1042648e29a74b9c29b2e9