Rich Shepard wrote: > 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. > > Rich: I have seen this problem, but it may not the source of your problem. With older Slackware distributions I have noticed that if you ever once use the middle mouse button, the dual button paste no longer works, you have to use the middle button thereafter. Try it. Wayne
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