[Bug 41301] Re: Mouse clicks stop working sporadically

[krouskop]

Hopefully this will be of benefit to the thread - I had this behavior
occur once yesterday and twice today and I seem to have found a way to
reproduce it.


My environment info:

Intrepid (8.10), 2.6.27-9, SMP, x86_64
VMWare Server 1.0.8 (build 126538)
Logitech LX7 mouse using 'Driver "mouse"' in my X config
Nvidia drivers - 177.82
Two displays, using TwinView with Xinerama


Steps to reproduce:

>From my Ubuntu host, I fire up a Windows 2000 guest virtual machine in
VMWare. I have the VMWare Console program running, maximized, on my left
display. With my mouse focus inside the Windows VM, I click and drag my
mouse (to, say, highlight some text or whatever) within the VM but I
drag all the way to the right edge of the VM's screen, such that if my
mouse wasn't focused within the VM, the cursor would move onto the right
display. Then, let go of the mouse button (which has being held down
during the drag / text-selection.)

After doing this, I can move my mouse around but the mouse won't move
beyond the boundaries of the VMWare Console window. Now I can hit ctrl-
alt to release the cursor from the VM (to return it back to the host)
and I can ctrl-tab to another window. Once I do this, I can finally move
the cursor to the right display, but mouse clicks (left, right, middle)
all go unrecognized, including if I have xev running, bring it to the
foreground, position the cursor over it and try clicking.

After all this, as is mentioned above, restarting X with ctrl-alt-delete
seems to be the only way to restore clicking capabilities.

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Mouse clicks stop working sporadically
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41301
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