It looks like you are using very old video drivers, could you try with a recent version.
Or else you could try opengl with the -force-opengl startup parameter.
https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Startup_parameters
Outside view is 3rd person view and inside is 1st person view, so technically the situation you describe seems correct (and is the same with mouse if I remember correctly)
The crafts in career contracts i.e. reposition satellite, will have a coloured box around them in map/orbital view
edit: I mostly notice them on my "bring tourists to station" contracts, thought it was stock
Debian (Stretch) with Gnome 3
(might switch to testing in a few months)
also I'm one of those weirdos with a dvorak keyboard layout, but with the 1.3 release there is no need for remapping anymore