Comment 2 for bug 775967

>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> Binary package hint: xterm
>>
>> Start X, and under X an xterm running bash.
>> Select some text and paste it at the command prompt. It is not echoed.
>> Type any keyboard character and the mouse-pasted text appears, followed
>> by the typed character.
>> This is not a bash problem: typing to cat or ed shows the same results.
>
> On the other hand, it may not be an xterm bug. Is your problem using
> the compiz-based window manager, or "classic"?

The window manager is twm. The problem is not the window manager, I think.
If I kill twm, and type _mwm_ to the shell prompt in the current window,
then the reaction is

$ mwm
The program 'mwm' can be found in the following packages:
 * lesstif-bin
 * motif-clients
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>

and nothing happens until I touch the mouse (or some key such as Shift on
the keyboard). It looks like a synchronization problem on some event
queue.