Erratic mouse behavior in 12.04

[Leslie Anne Chatterton]

Check in System Settings, Input Devices, Mouse. It sounds like you
have enabled some behaviours that you don't want. The options on that
page enable/disable the ability for "hover selection" and dragging
without clicking.

On 27 May 2012 13:51, Marcelo Magno T. Sales <mmtsales at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 64 bits fully updated and I'm experiencing some
> strange mouse behaviors, completely reproducible in this machine (Dell
> Inspiron One 2320). I have three others (vaio notebook and two Dell notebooks)
> where this problem does not happen. Some examples:
> 1. In libreoffice Calc, if I hover the mouse over the zoom control bar in the
> bottom right corner of Calc's window, the mouse grabs the zoom control by
> itself, without me clicking any button. If I move the mouse left and right,
> without ever touching its buttons, it drags the zoom control left and right.
> 2. In libreoffice Calc, if I left-click a tab other than the currently
> selected one, the new tab is selected as expected, but the mouse behaves as if
> the clicked button had stuck. When I move the mouse after selecting another
> tab, the mouse cursor changes to the arrow with the little rectangle, as if it
> was dragging a cell.
> 3. In Chromium, if I right-click a link and left-click "Open link in new tab",
> the mouse behaves as if the left-click stuck. When I move the mouse after
> opening the new tab, the mouse cursor changes to the little hand grabbing a
> sheet, as if I was moving the clicked link.
> 4. In Chromium, if I middle-click a link to open it in a new tab and then
> left-click the newly opened tab, the mouse cursor changes to the cross with
> arrowed points (the move window cursor) and the window is restored, as if I
> had started to drag it and let it go right after.
>
> Until now, I haven't noticed such mouse problems when using native KDE
> applications, except that sometimes I'm under the impression that the mouse
> cursor image is not updating correctly according to context (arrow, text
> insertion cursor, etc.).
> Any idea on what could be causing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcelo
>
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