Bug#1056060: gnome-text-editor: left-click selecting text down does not work. Only up.

Jeremy Bícha jbicha at debian.org
Mon Nov 24 03:31:04 GMT 2025


On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM szcl <sazamoracl at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Disabling all gnome extensions and re tested the issue. Firefox and
> LibreOffice Writer works fine, but the GNOME Text Editor still does not
> auto‑scroll when selecting text downward and it also works very slowly when
> scrolling upward.

Scrolling upward seems to work ok for me, but I confirm that selecting
text and trying to drag downward does not work. Could you report that
issue upstream?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/issues

I am using GNOME with Wayland and don't have Nvidia graphics.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha



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