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?