Re: [Pan-users] selecting more groups?

[Duncan]

David Melik posted on Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:43:23 +0000 as excerpted:

> On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 08:47:51 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
>> David Melik posted on Sat, 11 Nov 2017 05:28:44 +0000 as excerpted:
>> 
>>> Isn't there a way to select many groups at once?  The standard multi-
>>> selection shortcut such as in file managers is <SHIFT> then arrow or
>>> right mouse button.  Recently someone spammed most of around 200
>>> groups I'm in, and at other times, I'd want to mark something from
>>> maybe 1/3 to 90% my groups read, unless I posted recently?  It takes a
>>> few minutes to use <CTRL> and right mouse button to select hundreds
>>> individually.
>> 
>> Both shift-click (left, no idea where you got shift-right-click) and
>> ctrl-
>> left-click work fine to select multiple groups in the group list here,
>> shift for range-select and ctrl for non-contiguous-select, as
>> appropriate.
> 
> I meant <SHIFT> then left mouse button, which doesn't work for me.

Is your pan built against gtk2 or gtk3?  (If you don't know, at least on 
Linux you should be able to run ldd /path/to/pan to get a list of the libs 
it will load, and can check it from that.)  And I'm assuming you're 
running on Linux or at least one of the BSDs, not MS or Apple, correct?

I see from your headers you're running pan 0.139.  Pan built against gtk3 
had some rather strange behavior bugs back then, the reason building 
against gtk2 was recommended.  I believe a number of them have been fixed 
recently, so recently I'm not sure all of the fixes got into the latest 
0.142 release back in July (you'll not from my headers I'm running live-
git pan, listed as 0.143, which isn't released yet).

And while I don't remember what the specific gtk3-pan behavior issues 
were, this does sound like the sort of "weird" issues with gtk3-based-pan 
that had been reported over the years, that people found simply 
disappeared when they built against gtk2 instead of gtk3.

So particularly if your pan is built against gtk3, that's very likely the 
problem, and you might try building yourself, either upgrading to current 
live-git pan, and/or building against gtk2 instead of gtk3.

Meanwhile, if your pan is already built against gtk2, not gtk3, I really 
don't know, because as I said, I've not had problems, at least that I was 
aware of, with shift-left-click range-select, for many many years, 
including thru the 0.139 you're currently running.  In that case the only 
thing I could guess would be a specific problematic library version; 
perhaps one I skipped, thus explaining my never seeing the issue.

Tho it's also narrowly possible that I simply didn't /try/ such a multi-
select during 0.139, as it's not something I do as routinely as you 
apparently do (or would, if you could).  Because if I tried it and it 
wasn't working, I'd certainly have been irritated enough to remember it, 
and I don't, so it either worked without issue for me during 0.139, or if 
there were an issue, I simply didn't happen to try to use the range-
select functionality during the breakage.

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