[Bug 70075] Re: mouse issue screensaver + rdesktop

[Marty Lucich]

I have had the same problem for about a month on my Ubuntu Dapper system.
I didn't make the connection with screen saver but it is true that it
only happens when the screen saver has been active but not every time.
Usually once every few days.  I exit my vncviewer sessions every evening.
I never use rdesktop but I always use vncviewer.  So vncviewer has always
been running whenever I have had this problem.  I stay logged in with my
desktop up for days at a time.  I also am not 100% sure that vncviewer
had focus every time.

The only way I found to recover is to kill my X session with
<CTRL><ALT><BS> but today I have too many hours of context in my
various windows and I'm looking for another way.  I am afraid to kill
gdm as mentioned above because I think that will also kill the X server.
Can someone tell me if that's so?

I have this problem with both USB and PS2 mouse connections.  I can
remove one type of mouse and plug in the other and the system still
finds the mouse and lets me move the pointer.  No mouse button events
ever get though.  I can (and have as I write this) login on a console
and run startx to get another desktop running.  This desktop functions
normally.  I can run xev from a console and point it at either X session.
The second X server will show mouse movements and mouse button events.
The first X server shows the mouse movements but no mouse button events.

This is running on a 4 processor Xeon box.

Linux mogtest9 2.6.15-27-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 02:13:27 UTC 2006
i686 GNU/Linux

VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built May 29 2006 12:45:36
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.

mlucich at mogtest9:~$ X -version

X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.15.7 i686
Current Operating System: Linux mogtest9 2.6.15-27-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 02:13:27 UTC 2006 i686
Build Date: 16 March 2006
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        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
mlucich at mogtest9:~$

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mouse issue screensaver + rdesktop
https://launchpad.net/bugs/70075