<html><head></head><body>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?<br>
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 25, 2016 1:44:57 PM EDT, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken@jots.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">That *VERY* much sounds like hardware. Like, a lot.<br /><br />1) If it's a wireless mouse, change the batteries.<br /><br />If it's *not* wireless, disable the trackpad and switch to a different <br />external mouse. Assuming the issue goes away (which I bet it will), <br />re-enable one, then the other, and see who's at fault.<br /><br />-Ken<br /><br />On 2016-03-25 11:37, Tyson Sawyer wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> I can't figure out what regexp to apply to the internet to find an<br /> answer to this. I am running Mint Xfce 7.3 and it has been solid.<br /> But the past few weeks I've run into a few problems that seemed to<br /> come from nowhere.<br /> <br /> I'm finding that mouse events are getting messed up. The mouse<br /> pointer and keyboard seem to always work. The mouse events do not.<br /> Sometimes widgets do not respond to mouse-over or clicks.
I've seen<br /> occasional phantom responses in when I didn't click. I've seen<br /> buttons "depress" when clicked, but there is no other response. It<br /> will often start as specific windows or specific regions of windows<br /> and or system menus. It quickly degrades to no mouse functionality<br /> other than the pointer moving. I haven't seen that the track pad<br /> behaves any different from the mouse.<br /> <br /> I can temporarily clear the problem by switching to a text console and<br /> then back to X.<br /> <br /> I have tried different kernel versions, older and newer. The older<br /> and current had been working fine. None of them work now. I've tried<br /> a few varying from ~3.13 through 4.4.0.<br /> <br /> I tried installing Cinnamon to see if it was an Xfce thing, but the<br /> behavior remained.<br /> <br /> I haven't found a error log that provides any hints.<br /> <br /> Any suggestions? If I can't clear this up, I'm going to have to try a<br /> clean
re-install which would be a major downer.<br /> <br /> Thanks!<br /> Ty<br /></blockquote><br /><hr /><br />gnhlug-discuss mailing list<br />gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org<br /><a href="http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss">http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss</a>/<br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>