Mouse event problems

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Alternately, maybe a problem due to the use of "HWCursor" option in Xorg? I somewhat doubt that's something that can actually mess w/ behaviour other than rendering, but maybe?
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On March 25, 2016 1:44:57 PM EDT, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
>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
>
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