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Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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Title:
during mouse drag operations I'm getting undesired/unprompted dropping
and
Thanks for the help. I tried reducing input devices and pressing every
key. The problem persists through those tests. What I eventually
realized was my bluetooth mouse was the issue. Another mouse worked. The
bluetooth one did not work when connected either through bluetooth or
wired USB. Just a
It sounds like you are getting spurious mouse button (or even keyboard)
events from one of your input devices, which will randomly break drag
operations. This does happen to people occasionally and in every case
(so far) it turns out to be a broken input device.
Please try unplugging all input
One more bit of description, though it is rare, this problem does happen
when I am dragging a text selection. In my most recent example of that,
the text selection jumped to a window move. I also didn't mention the
detail that the location of the unrequested drop will be offset from the
location
