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Text highlight not working

Asked by Akis

I am not able to highlight text in firefox, open office and I am not able to open files in nautilus.
I installed ubuntu tweak and I made some changes as well as I changed the double click option on nautilus to single click. Now when I revert back to double click option, I cant open any files or folders. Please help!

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Akis (remond1988) said : 		#1

more info: I am not able to highlight text on web pages on firefox as well as the address bar.

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Akis (remond1988) said : 		#2

more info: I am not able to highlight text on web pages on firefox as well as the address bar.

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Akis (remond1988) said : 		#3

can anyone please help me?

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Akis (remond1988) said : 		#4

just a reminder this does not only affect firefox and open office. But it affects the whole system.

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Mathilda Young (gtrsdk) said : 		#5

What type of mouse are you using?

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Mathilda Young (gtrsdk) said : 		#6

Try reinstalling Ubuntu. If you made a custom disc (one modified so it has certain settings when you install it), you should try downloading the 9.10 version and just putting it straight onto the disc. If you need a driver for your mouse (which is unlikely) and it is a Windows driver, try using a program called "Wine" to make the program run in Ubuntu. And if that fails, try another mouse (I would suggest a new one).

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Akis (remond1988) said : 		#7

I am using a Microsoft USB/PS2 mouse. I downloaded the original ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 and the mouse worked perfectly. The problem started when I used ubuntu tweak as far as I remember.

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Nigel Babu (nigelbabu) said : 		#8

I suggest that you get rid of the tweak. It could have corrupted something.

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