switch off auto-selection of text (or what ever it is called ..)

[Owen Thomas]

This has happened to be before too.

I think Robert is describing a situation where he clicks the mouse
somewhere, and then, after releasing the mouse button, he moves the mouse
cursor, by moving his mouse, elsewhere. He frustratingly observes all text
in the application where he clicked to the place in nearest proximity to
where the moved the cursor to has been highlighted.

I have had this problem too, and I believe it is because I have
accidentally enabled some assisted typing facility. I don't know how to
stop it, but thankfully it hasn't happened to me in a while.

I don't know how to fix it, but it could be a hardware thing? What type of
hardware have you got Robert?

  Owen.


On 25 December 2017 at 21:52, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Monday 25 December 2017 05:28:04 robert wrote:
>
> > On 25.12.2017 11:20, Chris Green wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 10:49:45AM +0100, robert wrote:
> > >> i have a super annoying problem of which I do not even know how to
> > >> name it ..
> > >>
> > >> Some times my ubuntu 7.10 (but it was the same with former
> > >> versions) on a dell xp15 starts to "autoselect" text.
> > >>
> > >> So when I click some where and move the cursor the text gets
> > >> selected.
> > >
> > > Er, that's the standard way text selection works in Unix/Linux.
> > > Click and move the cursor to select text, then paste with the middle
> > > button (button 3).
> >
> > no it is not..
> > You have (to my understanding) to press the shift key together with
> > the mouse move.
> >
> > My box behaves as if I would have pressed the shift key, which I do
> > not ..
> >
> > robert
>
> Thats how its supposed to work _IF_ you do not release the left mouse
> button before you move the mouse. Note the IF above. You may have a bad
> mouse, quite a few of the later mice use the flex of the plastic buttons
> anchoring hinge as a spring, which IMNSHO is NOT near enough up
> pressure. I tend to pry the top covers off and take a hot air rework
> stations wand and heat the hinge, bending it up about 1/8" to make sure
> the darned thing will release when I lift my finger. Let it cool and
> reassemble.
> >
> > >> Very annoying.
> > >>
> > >> No idea what triggers this.
> > >
> > > It's normal, it's the way it 'should' work (if I'm understanding
> > > your description correctly).
> > >
> > > What do you want to happen when you click and move?  If you want
> > > 'click and drag' then that works too if you click on an 'object'.
> > > It's down to what you click on.
>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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