Re: [Pan-users] selecting more groups?

[David Melik]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 04:04:11 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> 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:
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>>> 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.
> 

Actually, apparently it does work for me, but I'm confused.  When I 
select, it goes blue, then after a few seconds, lighter blue, but is no 
longer selected... don't know what that means.

> 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).

I should try 0.142, or hopefully it will be released for my operating 
system (OS) distribution (distro.)

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