I noticed today that when GTK PuTTY puts up a message box such as a
host key dialog, which calls our create_message_box function with
selectable=true (so that the host key fingerprint can be conveniently
copy-pasted), a side effect is to take the X11 PRIMARY selection away
from whoever previously had it, even though the message box isn't
actually selecting anything right now.
I don't fully understand what's going on, but it apparently has
something to do with 'select on focus' behaviour, in which tabbing
into a selectable text control automatically selects its entire
contents. That makes sense for edit boxes, but not really for this
kind of thing.
Unfortunately, GTK apparently has no per-widget configuration to turn
that off. (The closest I found is not even per _application_: it lives
in GtkSettings, whose documentation says that it's general across all
GTK apps run by a user!)
So instead I work around it by moving the gtk_label_set_selectable
call to after the focus of the new window has already been sorted out.
Ugly, but it seems to work.
(cherry picked from commit c14f0e02cce022c7bee77935238a4b34f3c3a261)
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