Text can only be selected near the left hand edge right after initial creation

Ubuntu Studio 14.04, GIT commit: a2a87a9

I suspect this will turn out to be system specific and hard to reproduce, but:

1) new score, flute, 32 bars
2) click full measure rest in bar 1
3) Ctrl+T
4) type a whole lot of characters - say, until the text is at least 6 measures long
5) Esc to exit edit mode
6) Esc again to deselect text
7) try to select the text by clicking near the end (or anywhere over bars 2-6)

Result: you can't select the text (bad)

8) try again but this time click somewhere over bar 1

Result: text selects (good)

Now, try the following:

9) add line break after measure 4
10) try to select text by clicking near the very end of the text

Result: it works (good)

11) delete the line break
12) try to select the text by clicking near the very end again (or anywhere over bars 2-6)

Result: it works (good)

I've been noticing this for some time now - weeks? months? since I moved to Linux? Hard to say. But it's mystifying to me.