Comment 3 for bug 880544

Aha, interesting. My thinkpad r61 has this weird two kind of mice built in, a touchpad with two buttons and a separate trackpoint with separate three buttons. When using the middle button of those three, I get the behaviour I described above. When using the middle bmouse button emulation by pressing both the other keys (of the touchpad) it works as expected. Pasting with the middle mouse button works however. Using xev, I see that both button 1 and 2 have a press and release event which fire at the appropriate times when holding them. Button 2 however behaves really weird: Pressing it for a short time results in both events firing at the same time, however, sometimes nothing appears at all. Holding the button does not produce a press event or a release event when releasing the button. In fact, repeatedly pressing the middle button on a window with alt held, i sometimes see the resize icon for a very short time flickering up. Something wrong with the synaptics driver or something else interfering? I should try with a basic session only using xterm as a session...