On Sat 11 Dec 2021 at 15:29:02 (+0000), mick crane wrote:
Mine are a bit different there, have
Use middle mouse click to close tabs
use middle mouse click to open URLS
Auto hide mouse pointer
Open new tab to the right of the active tab
Audible bell
Visual bell
all unchecked except for Auto hide mouse pointer.
No comment on that, as I don't use a DE.
it happens again, bits of words from elsewhere in the file randomly
inserted into the file.
It's not garbage so I don't think is disk corruption or memory.
Once again, you don't say whether these bits of words appear
at random /times/, or in response to your keystrokes or mouseclicks
or even mouse movements.
As is executable
eh?
I sometimes run in other virtual terminal while
opened in nano.
Would that cause it?
If I understand you correctly, then of course not. You should be able
to run any number of different tasks at the same time, and switch
between them at will, without the system getting confused.
The other thing is I installed gd, think is called, and sometimes if
want to copy a single line and change one letter I shift and drag
pointer over the line then middle click to paste.
Dunno if that could do it. never happened in vi/vim or happened before
yesterday.
I don't want to try to guess what it is you're running in this
paragraph. So I'll ignore it, and carry on about nano.
Before I continue, I'll warn you that I don't tend to configure
editors to react to mouseclicks. So, for example, when I drag
the mouse across some text in nano, the cursor does not move,
but remains wherever it was. If I now paste that text with a
mouseclick, the text gets inserted at that same cursor position,
and /not/ at the place where you click the paste button. That
/might/ appear to be "random" to someone who's used to having
the text pasted at the position where they clicked the mouse.
So I suggest you check whether the placement of your "bits of
words" can be explained in this way.
Another facility that I don't use is "click-to-focus", because
I prefer to focus a window just by shoving the mouse inside it
(no precision required). Click-to-focus has the odd effect of
allowing keystrokes to be sent to one window while the mouse
is actually in another window. You can even type text which
can't be seen because a different window occludes it. Can you
see clearly which window has focus on your system?