Re: All terminal windows close

[Erik Walthinsen <omega temple-baptist com>]

Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > Anybody else come across something like this?
>
> Never that I can think of.
> I wondered at first if there was something in the listing which
> is acting as a sequence of control characters (or whatever the
> proper term is) on ssh. But if that was the case, then I would
> expect just your ssh session to die. Not your gnome-terminal too.

Since getting my new laptop with an Alps touchpad, I've had 
gnome-terminal crash complete (all windows and almost all children of 
the associated shells disappear) several dozen times.  I am 100% certain 
it has to do with a selections bug in my case, because the touchpad on 
my Compaq R3000T is located off-center, and has a dedicated scrolling 
region.  Unfortunately, the scroll region is handled solely in software, 
as are various anti-palming measures (unlike the Synaptics pads which 
afaict can do that in hardware, and retain their settings from Windows 
while running Linux).

Basically, inadvertant operation of the touchpad causes my mouse to go 
all over the place at the most inconvenient times, frequently starting 
applications from the panel, and somewhat less frequently causing a 
complete crash of gnome-terminal by way of some as-yet-unidentified 
sequence of selections.

I would love some suggestions on how I can debug this (bug-buddy came up 
 the first time only, and the report I type in never made it off my 
machine for some reason), and how I might solve the problems with this 
Alps touchpad so my other problems go away.

TIA,
   Omega