[arch-general] Mouse C&P not working

Ralf Madorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Sat Jan 14 17:56:44 EST 2012


On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:44 -0800, Don Juan wrote:
> > Regarding to X a widespread issue seems to be that the nv driver is
> > dropped, fortunately Arch still includes it to the repositories.
> I am thankful for that as well or else I would never be able to shutdown 
> or reboot my laptop. NV driver is the only one that I can get to work 
> reliably with my video card. Nouveau is even worse of a driver to use 
> for my card over the proprietary. Its sad I cant use a video driver that 
> works reliably that's actually being developed. I hope they get X and 
> nvidia sorted out soon.

Since the nv driver works without failure it doesn't need development.
Hopefully it will be possible to use it with future versions of X and
future versions of the compiler hopefully will be able to build the nv
driver.

> About the C&P are you sure that you don't have one of those paste 
> programs running in the background that you did not configure. I 
> remember I accidentally got one installed not paying attention to an 
> install and I had to remove it to get my C&P back to normal.

I don't know. It's possible that for Xfce such a program is running.



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