On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:07:31AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > About the time I upgraded to Bwowulf I experienced periodic problems > having the mouse pasting scanneted text with middle mouse button. > > I find that sometimes the mouse remembers scanned text but then is > unable to paste it. The problem comes and goes with my wired mouse but > is always present with my wireless mouse. It primarily occurs when > copying text from a GUI application such as displayed by a browser and > then pastting it into a text based application such as nano. But I > find that I can (usually?) correct the problem by scanning and pasting > a bit of text in nano and then do it with a GUI application. > > Anyone have any idea of what might be going on?
A wild guess. Linux has over the ages acquired (at least) two cut and paste mechanisms -- one from the underlying X system, and another from the desktop systems put on top. They don't always agree as to what has to be cut and pasted; I suspect each has its own paste buffer. They oftern communicate but not always. There have been occasions where I have had to cut in one pieve of software, paste into emacs, and then cut from emacs with the other mechanism and paste where I intended originally. Also: a lot of mouses have a middle scroll button that doubles as a middle clickable button. There can be a mechanical problem here; when I click on my middle button, I sometimes get a click, sometimes one step of a scroll (usually upwards), and sometimes both. Annoying. It takes come carefulness to get the signal I want. -- hendrik > > > -- > Haines Brown > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
