[C2][5.0.0.21] Terminal text selection wonky

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#1

REPRODUCIBILITY: 100% (always)
OSVERSION: 5.0.0.21
HARDWARE: Reeder S19 Max Pro S - s19mps - s19mps - 1.0.0.15 - aarch64
UI LANGUAGE: English (UK) (user: en_GB, os: en_GB.utf8)
REGRESSION: yes (since: 4.4.0.72 - aarch64)

DESCRIPTION:

In Terminal, selecting text by holding down a finger and dragging appears to use a wrong, or at least unusual offset.
Selection begins some characters/pixels to the right of the touched area, and after dragging also ends too far to the right.

PRECONDITIONS:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Open Terminal
  2. Generate some output to select
  3. Set Drag Mode Settings to ‘Select’
  4. Drag your finger to select some text

EXPECTED RESULTS:

ACTUAL RESULTS:

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Finger was swiped over the directory path quite precisely, starting at session and ending at /usr.

MODIFICATIONS:

  • Patchmanager: no
  • OpenRepos: yes
  • Chum: yes
  • Other: none specified

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Device Owner User: defaultuser
Home Encryption: enabled

the initial version of this bug report was created using Bugger 0.9.10+git7
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#2

Well spotted. I needed to add some extra padding to fully confirm that there is an offset :smiley:

Fix anyway there Fix text selection offset by pvuorela · Pull Request #10 · sailfishos/fingerterm · GitHub

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#3

Thanks! Can confirm this fixes the issue.

Selection still seems off a character or two sometimes, but that may just be my fat fingers.

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#4

Yea, the text selection UI is not necessarily ideal for finger usage in general.

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