Bug#407714: (no subject)

[Dave Thayer]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 05:53:51PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
>         Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007, Aaron Small wrote:
> > In all gtk applications, when I use the mouse to highlight text in a
> > text entry box, the selection will highlight momentarily, then
> > disappear. If I drag the mouse to the right across some text, the right
> > edge of the selection will move with the mouse cursor, but the left edge
> > will catch up almost immediately meaning as I go, only one to two
> > letters nearest the mouse are ever selected and the selection always
> > ends up empty, unless I move the mouse *very* fast. I'd guess I have
> > about half a second to get the text selected and release the mouse
> > button before I lose the selection. This makes it impossible to copy
> > text.
> 
>  It looks like a program is running in the background and stealing your
>  focus, could you try creating a fresh new user on your system: does it
>  suffer of the same problem?
> 
>  Could you check whether this happens after adding a particular applet
>  or running a particular program in your session?
> 

I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time now, and after
getting sufficiently irritated with it to do some googling I found
this bug/thread. After some experimentation, I found that the guilty
culprit in my case is wmcliphist (a clipboard monitor). See bugs
#211101 and #222816, which are about 3 years old at this point.

So I guess this is mainly a Me Too to Loïc's suggestion, chek your
applets!

HTH

dt

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