Re: [Hampshire] [OT]Re: Hampshire] 3rd mouse button in Gnome

On Thursday 13 Dec 2007, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> On Thursday 13 Dec 2007, hantslug@??? wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 December 2007 09:52, Victor Churchill wrote:
> > > I had a feeling that OpenOffice was a culprit but
> > > just checked and no, it's well behaved.
> >
> > OOo 2.0.4 on my Etch machine really irritates me. Some of the
> > time it behaves normally and responds to select -> press centre
> > button. This is convenient because it is what I always do at a
> > muscle memory level (including, on the rare occasions I am
> > compelled to, on Windows :-( ). But more of the time it won't
> > and insists on ^C/^X/^V, often changing part way through a
> > document. Grr. Now KWord can handle ODF, I might change over at
> > least some of the time.
> >
> > I have just checked, and it works at the moment, of course. And
> > will probably now work for the rest of the week. I must complain
> > about it in writing more often. ;-)
> >
> > Lisi
>
> The one that annoys me is the Adobe Reader plugin for
> Iceweasel/Firefox. It seems to work the FIRST time you use either
> method (^C-^V or Highlight-MiddleButton) but after that nothing.
>
> Unless that too will be fixed when I go to confirm it, in which
> case it looks like we've found a really excellent way of fixing
> bugs...!
>
> Peter

PARTIAL success! Re-confirming this bug in AdobeReader/Iceweasel shows
that although select and middle button still work only once, the ^C -
^V system now works properly. It's a fast-moving world all right...

Peter