Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

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On 02/01/2014 09:02 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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 > While it is very prevalent in Thunderbird,
> I also had the problem In Firefox and in gnome terminal.

 > Since this occurs across applications, I then installed KDE Plasma
 > to eliminate Gnome.

 > The problems definitely occur in KDE as well as Gnome 3.10.3.

> Additionally, I'm seeing some similar problems on Konsole.

> The problem is that in some cases when I try to select text I either
> cannot select an entire body of text. or sometimes a substitution is
> done.

 > I also noticed that in Thunderbird sometimes when I left click on
> a button, it tends to double click.

> I sometimes run Thunderbird at work via X over IP therough an SSH tunnel
> to RHEL 5.10, and the problem does not occur so it seems that the issue
> appears with the local X server.

selecting above from you post, presents a question,

have you tried using another mouse?

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