I’m trying to allow the user to select the text present in a GtkLabel and copy it to the clipboard. I’ve stumbled upon set_selectable(bool), however when I try it on GtkLabel, after I click on it a caret appears.
Caret:
Text selection however works:
Is there a way to hide the caret? Basically, I want the text selection to behave just like in the browser.
You may try to make the caret invisible with CSS:
label {
caret-color: transparent;
}
That seems to do the job, except it also hides the highlighting. Highlighting for reference:
Which makes copying text inconvenient because the selection is visible only when dragging the cursor:
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