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?
Devin
I just realized that more than MATE Terminal is affected. For example, if I'm using firefox on a long web page, click the scrollbar and quickly scroll through the page, then sometimes it behaves like after a bit I've released the mouse button: Instead of scrolling, the mouse (which is now outside of the scroll bar area) starts highlighting text instead.
On Mon, 11 May 2015 14:42:36 -0600 Devin Reade wrote:> I just realized that more than MATE Terminal is affected. For > example, if I'm using firefox on a long web page, click the scrollbar > and quickly scroll through the page, then sometimes it behaves like > after a bit I've released the mouse button: Instead of scrolling, > the mouse (which is now outside of the scroll bar area) starts > highlighting text instead.Do you have a wireless mouse? If so, have you replaced the battery lately? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
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? -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) -----------------------------
--On Monday, May 11, 2015 08:34:00 PM -0400 Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:> 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?Looks like it was hardware related, and yes it was a Logitech mouse that has been in use for a while. Replaced it with one of the same model (plain Logitech 3-button optical w/ wheel) and it seems to be back to normal. Thanks.