I see the same thing but have noticed that it is related to time: try making very fast selections with the mouse and it works; take normal time and the selection underway drops.
Another work around if you want to select a whole word or string of whole words: double click first word and hold button down on second click and drag. Mostly works. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049025 Title: Can't select text using mouse Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In writer, if I press the left mouse button over some text, then move the mouse around with the left button still pressed, a selection is created as it should, but after less than one second this selection is discarded. However, I can select text normally using the keyboard (using SHIFT and the arrow keys). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: libreoffice-writer 1:3.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-14.15-generic 3.5.3 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-14-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Sep 11 11:46:41 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=fr:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2011-04-01 (529 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1049025/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp