[CentOS] CentOS 7 MATE flakey mouse

[Fred Smith]

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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