On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Stefan Wollny <[email protected]> wrote: > I open an xterm and e.g. want to see the content of /etc/fstab. So I issue > $ cat /etc/fstab > > Now I want to copy one line to thunderbird or a web client via firefox. I used to do this by marking the relevant line, change to the other application (say: the web client) and press left and right mouse buttons simultaneously. Until some time ago this procedure inserted the marked-up line at the position of the cursor. No double-click, no Enter. Standard Unix - right? > > Exactly this procedure is disfunct on my system. No idea why, no idea where to look at. No big thing, just wondering if I missed s.th. or else.
There are a number of possibilities here, and no one knows (yet) which of them seem plausible: This could be malfunctioning hardware (bad connectors, sloppy mouse implementation, etc). This could be software. This could be easily repeatable. This could be intermittent. Can you try the mouse on a different machine? (Or, for that matter, a different mouse on a different machine.) Can you boot into a different OS and/or version? Anyways, the first step in solving any problem is trying to isolate it, and all we can do, for now, is give you guesses and hints which might help you in that. [But, focusing on this mailing list and how people like to use it: we do not yet have enough information to determine if you have triggered a flaw in the OS. That is very unlikely for any individual report, but there are a lot of individuals out there... still, for now, I would guess that there is something wrong with your machine and/or your mouse and that if you cannot isolate or fix the problem you will probably have to replace one or both, or live with it. That said: in my experience, most hardware problems have tended to be problems with the connectors.] Thanks, -- Raul
