Strange mouse selection on elementary os

[mbndr]

I can't select how I would normally do with the mouse.
When I move my mouse cursor somewhere on the micro screen, it selects from the current text cursor (or sometimes from the top) to the mouse position, I don't have to click for beginning selection.
I think it should work like in every text editor.
Double click for a word and three clicks for a line are working how expected.

$TERM: xterm
$SHELL: /bin/bash
uname -a: Linux element 3.19.0-58-generic #64~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 19:05:43 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[aerth]

Just ran into this bug on Debian, closing the terminal and reopening fixed it for me.

TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash

Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 # 1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-1 (2016-03-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux

[mbndr]

Not for me, I reopened many times.

[zyedidia]

It seems like the terminal on Elementary OS is sending mouse motion events strangely. It correctly sends key press and key release events but for mouse motion, it sends the key as 32 which means a motion event with mouse button 1 held down. I'm not really sure why it's doing this. I think I might be able to work around this though.

[aerth]

  "\u001b[?25l\u001b[?25l"

I captured it on Debian 8 + GNOME terminal 3.14.1 and the json file was full of these.. hope this helps

[aerth]

I notice the mouse disappears while typing on GNOME terminal, but not on xfce4-terminal

This bug effects only gnome-terminal on my system. xfce4-terminal and xterm work as expected.

[zyedidia]

I've got a fix now, but it requires a modification to tcell (which you can see here). I'll open a pull request to tcell.

[zyedidia]

See gdamore/tcell#94.

[aerth]

@probandula is it only on gnome-terminal ? Try others such as xterm, xfce4-terminal, or lxterminal to see if it is OS specific or what... I think it is gnome-terminal specific

[zyedidia]

This should be fixed since I am now using my fork of tcell.

[mbndr]

Working well ;) Thanks 👍