On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 05:52:30AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > 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.
I'm not an X expert, but a few questons: 1. Does it work the same with the middle button on a 3-button (or scroll) mouse and Emulate3Buttons disabled? 2. Does a commandline clipboard util (e.g. uclip or xsel) show the selected contents? I.e. is the "copy" operation or the "paste" operation failing? Similarly, if you use uclip/xsel to copy data, does it paste OK? 3. Can you replicate the behaviour on any other version of the X package, on another distro, or on a Slackware live CD? 4. Does it matter if GPM is running? 5. Does switching to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and switching back (Alt-F7 or so) change anything? 6. Is GrabDevice enabled or disabled? 7. Does this link have any bearing? http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-evdev-middle-mouse-button-emulation.html Good luck, Aaron _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
