Mouse event problems

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

That *VERY* much sounds like hardware.  Like, a lot.

1) If it's a wireless mouse, change the batteries.

If it's *not* wireless, disable the trackpad and switch to a different 
external mouse.  Assuming the issue goes away (which I bet it will), 
re-enable one, then the other, and see who's at fault.

-Ken

On 2016-03-25 11:37, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
> I can't figure out what regexp to apply to the internet to find an
> answer to this.  I am running Mint Xfce 7.3 and it has been solid.
> But the past few weeks I've run into a few problems that seemed to
> come from nowhere.
> 
> I'm finding that mouse events are getting messed up.  The mouse
> pointer and keyboard seem to always work.  The mouse events do not.
> Sometimes widgets do not respond to mouse-over or clicks.  I've seen
> occasional phantom responses in when I didn't click.  I've seen
> buttons "depress" when clicked, but there is no other response.  It
> will often start as specific windows or specific regions of windows
> and or system menus.  It quickly degrades to no mouse functionality
> other than the pointer moving.   I haven't seen that the track pad
> behaves any different from the mouse.
> 
> I can temporarily clear the problem by switching to a text console and
> then back to X.
> 
> I have tried different kernel versions, older and newer.  The older
> and current had been working fine.  None of them work now.  I've tried
> a few varying from ~3.13 through 4.4.0.
> 
> I tried installing Cinnamon to see if it was an Xfce thing, but the
> behavior remained.
> 
> I haven't found a error log that provides any hints.
> 
> Any suggestions?  If I can't clear this up, I'm going to have to try a
> clean re-install which would be a major downer.
> 
> Thanks!
> Ty