screen touch text selection issue

[Jaime Pérez]

When I long press a word, it's marked and 2 blue leaves appear on borders. I suppose that, as in Android, they should allow me to select more or less text, but when I click on them they are not recognized and I get same behaviour as if I was clicking anywhere else. The same happens when I select an area of the text. A blue leaf appears and when I touch on it, the behaviour is not the expected one.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 4.4.8-040408-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Sun Apr 24 16:29:11 2016
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [1043:144d]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-23 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. X200LA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.8-040408-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash elevator=noop acpi_osi= vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/16/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: X200LA.204
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: X200LA
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrX200LA.204:bd06/16/2014:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnX200LA:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnX200LA:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: X200LA
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67+git1604211830.739b88~gd~x
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.3~git1604211930.0020ca~gd~x
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.3~git1604211930.0020ca~gd~x
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2
xserver.bootTime: Sun Apr 24 10:44:43 2016
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 12380
 vendor AUO
xserver.version: 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Jaime Pérez, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

To clarify, if you remove the following non-default kernel parameters does this impact this issue:
elevator=noop acpi_osi=

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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