Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:58:01 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: 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: <20110918205801.GA4621@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20110918192932.GA85501@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <4E7547B4.600@rawbw.com> <20110918130544.GA27690@saltmine.radix.net> <4E761714.1070308@rawbw.com> <20110918172818.GA8943@saltmine.radix.net> <20110918192932.GA85501@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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--jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:29:32PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > 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 Konsol= e=20 > > > >>(KDE4) > > > >>> sometimes it doesn't paste with the middle mouse button click. > > > >Where are you pasting? (on another terminal emulator, in an applica= tion > > > >running in a terminal emulator, or within another X application)? > > > > > > >=20 > > > Test selected in Konsole I usually paste into Konsole. and it fails= =20 > > > maybe in 5-10% of cases. > >=20 > > 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... > >=20 > > (consistent problems are easier to fix ;-) >=20 > 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. this part could be xterm, but more likely is in the X server. An xterm-specific problem tends to be pretty reproducible, since it'll depend on what the source/destination are. (The ones that aren't are related to timing and repainting - things like that). =20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Next time this happens, I'll try to record the > exact details, if you are interested. hmm - I'm not sure I can use the information effectively. Right now I'm se= tup with a KVM using USB for a Mac OS X server, with a laptop running Xen Server (which gets its mouse via the X connection). Both of those run VM's, which= is where I do most of my work... (the hardware stays stable for quite a while= ). The KVM's used to occasionally access a desktop. --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFOdltXtIqByHxlDocRAtvEAJwNjCeQVgbMHWUxCKnnbW0uqGiA5QCgiLFx AUN3bQfOZ94FyeBrU66Ry90= =y989 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP--
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