On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, auquicu wrote: >>> Public bug reported: >>> >>> Binary package hint: xterm >>> >>> Start X, and under X an xterm running bash. >>> Select some text and paste it at the command prompt. It is not echoed. >>> Type any keyboard character and the mouse-pasted text appears, followed >>> by the typed character. >>> This is not a bash problem: typing to cat or ed shows the same results. >> >> On the other hand, it may not be an xterm bug. Is your problem using >> the compiz-based window manager, or "classic"? > > The window manager is twm. The problem is not the window manager, I think.
That sounds likely (twm should be fairly stable). > If I kill twm, and type _mwm_ to the shell prompt in the current window, > then the reaction is > > $ mwm > The program 'mwm' can be found in the following packages: > * lesstif-bin > * motif-clients > Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package> > > and nothing happens until I touch the mouse (or some key such as Shift on > the keyboard). It looks like a synchronization problem on some event > queue. Perhaps the "pointerMode" resource is related. If you set it to 0 (zero), it's supposed to disable that feature. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775967 Title: mouse pasted text not shown To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xterm/+bug/775967/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
