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) -----------------------------