Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

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On 02/01/2014 06:57 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 02/01/2014 03:14 PM, g wrote:
>>
>> On 02/01/2014 09:02 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> <>
>>
>>> While it is very prevalent in Thunderbird,
>>> I also had the problem In Firefox and in gnome terminal.
>>> Since this occurs across applications, I then installed KDE Plasma
>>> to eliminate Gnome.
>>> The problems definitely occur in KDE as well as Gnome 3.10.3.
>>> Additionally, I'm seeing some similar problems on Konsole.
>>> The problem is that in some cases when I try to select text I either
>>> cannot select an entire body of text. or sometimes a substitution is
>>> done.
>>> I also noticed that in Thunderbird sometimes when I left click on
>>> a button, it tends to double click.
>>> I sometimes run Thunderbird at work via X over IP therough an SSH tunnel
>>> to RHEL 5.10, and the problem does not occur so it seems that the issue
>>> appears with the local X server.
>> selecting above from you post, presents a question,
>>
>> have you tried using another mouse?
>>
> That's exactly what I was going to suggest.  Over the years I've had
> many mouse cords go bad right at the point where they enter the mouse
> body.  I usually disassemble the mouse, prune back the cord, and
> resolder it back together.  That fixes the wacky mouse behavior.
>
Thanks. I'll experiment with it, but I still suspect a software problem
because I noticed it immediately after and update that had x.org as one
of the components.

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