I have a very frustrating problem: left-clicking an empty space in gnome-terminal selects the whole (empty) line. This pretty much kills all the copy-paste functionality of gnome - in order to copy from one window to another I need to change focus to the other window, and just changing the focus selects the empty space and clears the previous selection.
More details:
- I'm connecting to a Linux machine through VNC. Same problem happens with different VNC clients.
- Linux Distro: SLES 11 SP2 (i586)
- Linux machine is a virtual machine on top of VMWare ESXi
- VNC Server: TightVNC Server version 1.3.9
I found the description of same problem on ubuntu forums, but there was no resolution posted.
Decided to answer my own question, in case anyone is interested in this issue. The problem was unsolvable in the existing setup - I tried every possible solution I could find on the web.
Changing VNC Server helped.
Looks like it's a problem of TightVNC Server (or maybe of this particular version of the TightVNC). With other servers (e.g. RealVNC) everything works fine.