Mouse event problems

[Tyson Sawyer]

I would have thought hardware if the bad behavior wasn't temporarily
cleared by switching consoles and I didn't get different (good vs.
bad) behavior in different windows and different widgets within a
window.

...still worth trying because it is easy to try.



On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:44 PM, 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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Tyson D Sawyer

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