I have an exceptionally bothersome issue that appeared only a few weeks ago after a distribution upgrade followed immediately by hardware failures. Despite a totally new hardware system and a clean installation of the most recent distribution version the problem persists. I need to communicate with someone intimately familiar with X but have not identified an appropriate mail list, Usenet group, or Web-based forum.
If I recall correctly, we have at least one such expert as a member of our group and I would appreciate a dialog that might guide me to the source of the problem and its resolution. The problem is that the ability to paste blocked text suddenly stops. Doesn't matter whether this is within a single virtual console or application or across windows. The source text remains highlighted but it will not paste when both mouse buttons are pressed simultaneously. Killing the X server and restarting it usually fixes the problem for a time. The time between failures is highly variable. The failure happens with my regular Logitech trackball and with a USB-connected mouse. The distribution version is Slackware-13.1 with xfce-4.6.1-i486-8 and xorg-server-1.7.7-i486-2_slack13.1. I will provide additional information as needed. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
