Bug#407714: (no subject)

[Loïc Minier]

        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?

   Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>