Bug#407714: (no subject)

[Aaron Small]

Hi Loïc,

I believe you are correct, I use the ion3 window manager (Version
20061223-1).
When using a different window manager, the problem doesn't occur. How
can I tell if this is actually an ion3 or a gtk problem?


Thanks,
Aaron

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:53:51 +0100
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> 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?
> 
>    Bye,