Bug#770134: gedit: Cannot select text in column 1 when Side Panel is visible

[Liban Hannan]

Package: gedit
Version: 3.14.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

If Side Panel is enabled (Menu -> View -> Side Panel), then it is impossible,
or at least extremely difficult to select the first character of the line
(colum 1) as the cursor changes to a resize handle for the Side Panel instead.

Another way of looking at this problem is that Side Panel's resize edge extends
into the document by enough to prevent selections of that start with the first
character of a line.



-- Package-specific info:
Active plugins:
  - 'devhelp'
  -  'sourcecodebrowser'
  -  'sort'
  -  'snippets'
  -  'filebrowser'
  -  'spell'
  -  'quickopen'
  -  'modelines'
  -  'docinfo'
  -  'pythonconsole'
  -  'time'
  -  'externaltools'

No plugin installed in $HOME.

Module versions:
  - glib                  2.42.1
  - gtk+                  3.14.5
  - gtksourceview         
  - pygobject             
  - enchant               
  - iso-codes             3.57


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (400, 'unstable'), (300, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental'), (200, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.17-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gedit-common               3.14.0-2
ii  gir1.2-peas-1.0            1.12.1-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.14.1-1
ii  iso-codes                  3.57-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.19-13
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcairo2                  1.14.0-2.1
ii  libenchant1c2a             1.6.0-10.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1      1.42.0-2.2
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.14.5-1
ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-1     3.14.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.8-2
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.8-2
ii  libpeas-1.0-0              1.12.1-2
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxml2                    2.9.2+dfsg1-1
ii  python3-gi                 3.14.0-1
ii  python3-gi-cairo           3.14.0-1
pn  python3:any                <none>

Versions of packages gedit recommends:
ii  yelp    3.14.1-1
ii  zenity  3.14.0-1

Versions of packages gedit suggests:
pn  gedit-plugins  <none>

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