Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:29:32 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> Cc: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why selecting text with mouse often doesn't make the text pasteable with mouse mid-button click? Message-ID: <20110918192932.GA85501@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110918172818.GA8943@saltmine.radix.net> References: <4E7547B4.600@rawbw.com> <20110918130544.GA27690@saltmine.radix.net> <4E761714.1070308@rawbw.com> <20110918172818.GA8943@saltmine.radix.net>
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On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 01:28:18PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 09:06:44AM -0700, Yuri wrote: > > On 09/18/2011 06:05, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > >>> I notice this again and again: when I select some text in Konsole > > >>(KDE4) > > >>> sometimes it doesn't paste with the middle mouse button click. > > >Where are you pasting? (on another terminal emulator, in an application > > >running in a terminal emulator, or within another X application)? > > > > > > > Test selected in Konsole I usually paste into Konsole. and it fails > > maybe in 5-10% of cases. > > hmm - no good guesses there. It could be an overactive Window manager > grabbing the focus away at the wrong point (it's a nuisance on Mac OS X > for instance). If it were a consistent problem with pasting into a > given application, I had a couple of ideas... > > (consistent problems are easier to fix ;-) Now you mentioned it, I see something similar. I typically paste from one xterm window to another. Typically one xterm is the local box and another xterm is some ssh session. What I see on amd64 laptop is that pasting with a built-in mouse stops working after a while. I typically have a usb mouse as well. Pasting with a usb mouse never fails. I can copy with a built-in mouse and paste with a usb mouse. Because in the end I get done what I need, I never really bothered to think why. Next time this happens, I'll try to record the exact details, if you are interested. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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