On 02/01/2014 03:14 PM, g wrote:
On 02/01/2014 09:02 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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> While it is very prevalent in Thunderbird,
> I also had the problem In Firefox and in gnome terminal.
> Since this occurs across applications, I then installed KDE Plasma
> to eliminate Gnome.
> The problems definitely occur in KDE as well as Gnome 3.10.3.
> Additionally, I'm seeing some similar problems on Konsole.
> The problem is that in some cases when I try to select text I either
> cannot select an entire body of text. or sometimes a substitution is
> done.
> I also noticed that in Thunderbird sometimes when I left click on
> a button, it tends to double click.
> I sometimes run Thunderbird at work via X over IP therough an SSH tunnel
> to RHEL 5.10, and the problem does not occur so it seems that the issue
> appears with the local X server.
selecting above from you post, presents a question,
have you tried using another mouse?
That's exactly what I was going to suggest. Over the years I've had
many mouse cords go bad right at the point where they enter the mouse
body. I usually disassemble the mouse, prune back the cord, and
resolder it back together. That fixes the wacky mouse behavior.
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