On 2020-11-17 07:16, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:07:31AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
>> About the time I upgraded to Bwowulf I experienced periodic problems
>> having the mouse pasting scanneted text with middle mouse button.
>>
>> I find that sometimes the mouse remembers scanned text but then is
>> unable to paste it. The problem comes and goes with my wired mouse but
>> is always present with my wireless mouse. It primarily occurs when
>> copying text from a GUI application such as displayed by a browser and
>> then pastting it into a text based application such as nano. But I
>> find that I can (usually?) correct the problem by scanning and pasting
>> a bit of text in nano and then do it with a GUI application.
>>
>> Anyone have any idea of what might be going on?
>
> A wild guess. Linux has over the ages acquired (at least) two cut and
> paste mechanisms -- one from the underlying X system, and another from
> the desktop systems put on top. They don't always agree as to what has
> to be cut and pasted; I suspect each has its own paste buffer. They
> oftern communicate but not always. There have been occasions where I
> have had to cut in one pieve of software, paste into emacs, and then
> cut
> from emacs with the other mechanism and paste where I intended
> originally.
>
> Also: a lot of mouses have a middle scroll button that doubles as a
> middle clickable button. There can be a mechanical problem here; when
> I
> click on my middle button, I sometimes get a click, sometimes one step
> of a scroll (usually upwards), and sometimes both. Annoying. It takes
> come carefulness to get the signal I want.
>
> -- hendrik
>

My old PS2 rollerball mouse developed this annoyance with a middle
scroll click even in jessie. So nothing new. Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it doesn't and I have to recopy.

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