@agx sorry for some offtopic, but what is actually responsible for text selection on mobile? GTK or Phosh directly? Or something else? I can't understand why text selection works really different on GTK+3 and GTK4 apps. Particularly, in my case, the latter option is more buggy and more unusable compared to GTK+3 apps, such as Chatty.

When I try to select, copy and paste text in GTK4 apps, it feels like real hell because I can't just long press and do something like in Android!/GTK+3 apps. Why?

@agx mine device is Lenovo A6010 (5") with postmarketOS edge with phosh-osk-stub installed. Yes, this device is weaker than PinePhone, but I want to use it as a secondary phone. A lot of problems make it difficult, but it is the operation of copying and pasting text that I perform very often and bugs just kill me. For example, I absolutely always have to click on the cursor, so that at least some menu appears, which is generally difficult when selecting directly without resetting the selection.

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@000exploit I assume you mean text selection via touch input: That is mostly handled by the toolkit (e.g. gtk). There can be compositor bugs too but I'd start looking at the toolkit side first.

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