Thanks so much. You were both right. This is a WM issue. In my case
Sawfish was setup as using CTRL for Modifiers keys used to default
window manager shortcuts (control center -> Sawfish -> shortcuts). I
changed it to alt and now I can make non adjacent multiple selection.

Thanks for the tip

Regards 

Pascal

On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 13:24, Dan Berger wrote:
> Just found it - check bug # 5297
> (http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5297) 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:29:46PM -0700, Dan Berger wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:09:39AM -0700, Pascal DeMilly wrote:
> > > > Control-click.
> > > Doesn't work for me. Let say  have 3 messages, I click on the 1st and
> > > shift-click on the last one. If I want to deselect the 2nd one, I should
> > > be able to ctrl-click on it. In all instances, evolution will always
> > > select only that message.
> > > 
> > 
> > This is almost certainly a window manager issue.  I had the same
> > problem when running sawfish - but solved it by removing one of the
> > sawfish shortcuts that bound control-double-click (or something
> > similar).
> > 
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> >     not become a monster..."
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>     not become a monster..."
>                               -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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