Selection using mouse aborts unexpectedly

[Bryan Venteicher]

----- "Jos Backus" <jos at catnook.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:44:54PM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > Sounds like your mouse button is worn out. Did you verify this with
> a different
> > mouse?
> 
> No, but I don't think I need to because selection works okay in an
> xterm. I.e.
> when I click-drag the left mouse button inside an xterm the selection
> stays
> active just fine as long as I hold down the mouse button. But when I
> go to
> some webpage inside Opera and try to select text, the selection aborts
> and
> starts reselecting right away. Same on the console. I could swear this
> used to
> work before.

A Microsoft mouse of mine had similar behavior. The mouse is probably sending spurious up events. There's a flag for this in the ums driver: UMS_FLAG_SBU. Try or'ing that to sc_flag at attach time.
 
> -- 
> Jos Backus
> jos at catnook.com
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