On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 02:38:21PM -0600, Devin Reade wrote:
> I'm using the MATE desktop (via 'yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop"') on
> CentOS 7. I'm finding the mouse to be rather flakey in the sense
> that:
> - in MATE Terminal, clicking on text and dragging the mouse (in order
> to highlight the text and copy it to the X cut & paste buffer) will
> sometimes drop the highlight (thus not copying anything), or
> stop and restart the highlight (thus copying the wrong text).
>
> - double clicking in MATE terminal to do highlight and copy in
> by-words mode often grabs the wrong text
>
> In all other versions of xterm-like terminals since the dawn of time,
> these kinds of operations have been rock-solid. Now they're unpredictable.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this kind of behavior?
Not me.
I remember seeing a thread, somewhere (possibly a Fedora list, maybe)
a few months ago about well-used Logitech mice giving multiple
clicks for a single depression of a button. What you describe
sounds kinda like that, to me. Do you have another mouse to try
it with?
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