CentOS 7 MATE Flakey Mouse

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I’m using the MATE desktop (via ‘yum groupinstall “MATE Desktop”‘) on CentOS 7. I’m finding the mouse to be rather flakey in the sense that:
– in MATE Terminal, clicking on text and dragging the mouse (in order
to highlight the text and copy it to the X cut & paste buffer) will
sometimes drop the highlight (thus not copying anything), or
stop and restart the highlight (thus copying the wrong text).

– double clicking in MATE terminal to do highlight and copy in
by-words mode often grabs the wrong text

In all other versions of xterm-like terminals since the dawn of time, these kinds of operations have been rock-solid. Now they’re unpredictable.

Is anyone else seeing this kind of behavior?

Devin

5 thoughts on - CentOS 7 MATE Flakey Mouse

  • I just realized that more than MATE Terminal is affected. For example, if I’m using firefox on a long web page, click the scrollbar and quickly scroll through the page, then sometimes it behaves like after a bit I’ve released the mouse button: Instead of scrolling, the mouse (which is now outside of the scroll bar area) starts highlighting text instead.

  • –USB mouse. Solid under CentOS 6. Different motherboard, et al, though. I guess I could try some hardware swaps or switching to another window manager to see what changes, if anything.

    desktop changes getting in the way of real work

    Devin

  • Not me.

    I remember seeing a thread, somewhere (possibly a Fedora list, maybe)
    a few months ago about well-used Logitech mice giving multiple clicks for a single depression of a button. What you describe sounds kinda like that, to me. Do you have another mouse to try it with?

  • –Looks like it was hardware related, and yes it was a Logitech mouse that has been in use for a while. Replaced it with one of the same model (plain Logitech 3-button optical w/ wheel)
    and it seems to be back to normal.

    Thanks.