Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes:
> 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.
Yeah: selection and ownership of the "primary selection" are different; while
making a selection should assert ownership, changing primary selection
ownership should not cause your text to be deselected.
So, it could still be this despite the visual cue.
>> 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.
It is certainly possible, but I would suggest you perform those steps anyhow:
it will tell you, with certainty, what is happening in terms of the mouse
input, and that will tell you if it is that mouse events are missed, or if the
selection stuff is going wrong.
Daniel
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