Hi: gmp is loaded at boot time in my system. I'm working in the console. The problem: any movement I do with the mouse immediately marks. I then press <Esc> and the selection is undone. Now, if I move, just move, the mouse again, the screen gets marked again. And so on.

What I tried: I clear'ed the screen. It did not do. I issued the reset command. No use. Then I exited the shell (bash). The issue persisted. Only thing left to do was to reboot. Any less drastic solution? Though really, I'd be more interested in knowing if this is a problem that somebody else has experienced before with linux. ÿsemoi@server:/almacen/sma_/info/clear/cl1/correo/lq$

kernel 3.6.29, slackware 14.0, x86_64
GNU bash, version 4.2.37(2)-release (x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu)
gmp 1.20.1 (X-mas), December 2002

I've seen this behaviour before. The problem was caused by wrong device and/or protocol settings. I'm talking about these entries:

MDEVICE="abc"
PROTOCOL="xyz"
GPMOPTS=""

MDEVICE could be /dev/mouse, /dev/psaux, /dev/input/mice, /dev/ttyS0 etc
Once you determine which device is used you can run gpm -m [device] -t -help to get the available PROTOCOL (imps2 is often used).
GPMOPTS is most often empty.

I haven't used Slackware in a very long time so I'm not able to tell you exactly which file you need to edit. I do remember there being a mouse configuration menu.

I cannot find those names (MDEVICE, PROTOCOL,GPMOPTS). There is /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/, but these strings are not here according to grep. Anyways, I've found that just by left-clicking with the mouse the issue disappears. Thanks for your post, druuna.

Those vars aren't part of X.

The GPM (General Purpose Mouse daemon) package contains a mouse server for the console. I do believe the config files for slackware are found in /etc/gpm-*.conf

Glad to see you got this fixed and you're welcome!

Can you put up the solved tag?

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I do not really consider it solved yet.