On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote: > The primary selection can be perturbed as focus changes, if you use the > focus-follows-mouse policy, which can trigger things that look like this.
However, as I wrote in an earlier message, the selected text remains highlighted when I check it after finding the paste fails. > That seems odd. I suggest testing with xev under X, to determine if the > clicks and so forth are coming through as expected. That would eliminate > the mouse and let you investigate application level things for the root > cause... Because a vital chip on the motherboard failed (the chip that included video functions), I'm leaning more toward either hardware corruption or subtle change to a system file. Today I'm using a USB-connected mouse instead of the trackball. If I don't see the pasting failures I'll know it's the trackball causing the issue. Sunday (a slow day for mail so I can shut down the server for a few hours), I'll swap out the new drive for the old ones, install Slackware-13.0 on it, make sure it boots, copy all my stuff from the bigger old drive, then re-install the OS. My rationale is that if anything in the X server became corrupted on the old drive, when I move files to the new drive with rsync it might over-write the uncorrupted files in the new distribution. Re-installing will correct that while leaving all non-distribution files in place since the drive will not be repartitioned or reformatted. If these steps don't work I'll be totally stumped. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
