Clicking an empty space in gnome-terminal selects the whole line

Question

I have a very frustrating problem: left-clicking an empty space in gnome-terminal selects the whole (empty) line. This pretty much kills all the copy-paste functionality of gnome - in order to copy from one window to another I need to change focus to the other window, and just changing the focus selects the empty space and clears the previous selection.

More details:

• I'm connecting to a Linux machine through VNC. Same problem happens with different VNC clients.
• Linux Distro: SLES 11 SP2 (i586)
• Linux machine is a virtual machine on top of VMWare ESXi
• VNC Server: TightVNC Server version 1.3.9

I found the description of same problem on ubuntu forums, but there was no resolution posted.

Answer 1

Decided to answer my own question, in case anyone is interested in this issue. The problem was unsolvable in the existing setup - I tried every possible solution I could find on the web.

Changing VNC Server helped.

Looks like it's a problem of TightVNC Server (or maybe of this particular version of the TightVNC). With other servers (e.g. RealVNC) everything works fine.