Double-click to select word not working

[Nils Kassube]

Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On 04/21/2014 03:48 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > today I upgraded a friend's machine to 14.04. When I wanted to do
> > some jobs in a terminal I noticed that I couldn't select filenames
> > by double- clicking those names. And selecting an entire line by
> > triple-clicking didn't work either. I was a bit puzzled because
> > this feature works on all the other *Ubuntu machines I know.
> > Further experiments showed that it is not limited to the terminal
> > but doesn't work for any application. My friend told me that this
> > feature had never worked before.
> > 
> > Is there a config file which determines if double-click to select
> > words can be switched off?

> I don't know if this will help because your friends problem seems to
> extend beyond the terminal.  Is it possible your friend erased some
> key characters from the Edit-->Profile
> Preferences-->General-->Select-by-word characters box?

No, that's a place where I looked already, but there was nothing 
unusual. Thanks anyway.


Nils