Re: mouse question

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 08/13/05 

Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 22:52:12 +0200

Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>
> > It's not clear what you want. A slection happens when you do a "shift
> > drag".????That??means,??press??shift??key??and??maintain??it??pressed,??then??press
> > the middle mouse button and maintain it pressed, then move the mouse.
> >
> > There is no room for timing there.
> >
> > When you release the button, the selection ends.
> >
>
> I select text differently. If I press and hold left mouse and move the mouse

Yes, I mean "left", not "middle".

> then text is selected. There is no shift key involved. Middle mouse is used
> to paste selected text.

Then use shift - you can change all this at whim in your window
manager.

> My problem is that when I just left click and then move the mouse, there is
> often an unwanted text selection. To avoid this I have to work more slowly

What text selection? The mouse is normally configured to select a word
on double click, and a line on treble click, etc. It sounds like you
have a bouncy mouse! Debounce it.

> than I would like.

It sounds like you are on a toshiba or some other machine like that
with a (known) faulty mouse or keyboard controller. Those controllers
don't send the expected sequences. There are coding workarounds, but
they involve patching and recompiling. I would have thought late 2.6
kernels and modern X drivers had had the patches applied.

So tell us about your hardware.

Peter