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?
--On Monday, May 11, 2015 02:47:53 PM -0600 Frank Cox theatre@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
Do you have a wireless mouse? If so, have you replaced the battery lately?
USB mouse. Solid under CentOS 6. Different motherboard, et al, though. I guess I could try some hardware swaps or switching to another window manager to see what changes, if anything.
<grumble, grumble>desktop changes getting in the way of real work </grumble, grumble>
Devin
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?
--On Monday, May 11, 2015 08:34:00 PM -0400 Fred Smith fredex@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.
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