Comment 3 for bug 775967

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.

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