mouse input issues.

[seawing]

I plugged in my usb keyboard and now everything is working.  For how long I
don't know, but that is how it has been going.

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On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:38 PM, seawing <Jason at seawingdesigns.com> wrote:

> OK, this is totally bizarre.  I moved my mouse transmitter to a different
> USB port and now the click problem seems to be gone, but now my ps2
> keyboard stopped working.  {how do you make the emoticon of pulling your
> hair out?}
>
>
> Jason Earrame
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>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Scott DuBois <sdubois at linux.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/09/2014 04:54 PM, seawing wrote:
>> > Thanks Scott.  This behavior seems to be effecting any window that I
>> > have open. I don't believe that I have a mouse driver, and if I do it is
>> > pre-installed.  I am using a logitec wireless mouse.  I broke my only
>> > PS2 mouse right at the begining of this process so I don't currently
>> > have one to test with.  I do have a ps2 adapter that I will try.
>> >
>> > I am making it limp along by doing what I said earlier, dragging a tab
>> > in a window and dropping it makes all the areas active. as soon as I
>> > click on something, change to a different open application for example,
>> > then only the application buttons are active and the tabs and buttons in
>> > the window are not active.  I then grab one of those application
>> > buttons, like the Firefox or konqueror buttons and act like I am
>> > dragging them to the desktop, but then drop them back where they were
>> > and then all the buttons are active again.
>> > much have to shut down
>> > This mostly works until something happens where no buttons work and the
>> > only way to switch applications is to alt+tab.  This sometimes gets it
>> > unstuck.
>> >
>> > This morning instead of having a click problem I was having a white
>> > flashing screen.  I changed to the x.org <http://x.org> x server video
>> > driver and that went away.  I thought all of my problems were solved,
>> > but after half an hour of working the click problem came back.
>> >
>> > I have disabled all the desktop effects, but that didn't help.
>> >
>> > I will try the ps2 adapter now.
>> >
>> > Jason Earrame
>> > www.SeaWingDesigns.com <http://www.seawingdesigns.com/>
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>> >
>> > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Scott DuBois <sdubois at linux.com
>> > <mailto:sdubois at linux.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     On 09/08/2014 05:19 PM, seawing wrote:
>> >     > I don't think so because it is pretty specific.  I can click on
>> some
>> >     > things and not others.  I can continue to click around tabs for
>> >     > instance, but not close or minimize the window.
>> >     >
>> >
>> >     Can you narrow it down to "certain" programs? Because right now the
>> >     little info to go on is just too broad to really nail something
>> down.
>> >
>> >     Mouse drivers? Try a different mouse if you can. Have you tried
>> >     unplugging it then rebooting then plugging the mouse back in to be
>> >     re-detected?
>> >
>> >     If you have an adapter, try the PS2 port and see if that works.
>> >
>>
>> Man, I would be throwing things and cursing with these kinds of
>> problems. Congrats for staying cool. :-)
>>
>> Um, something someone once threw at me as a diagnosis tool is to create
>> a new "user" that is bare-bone and see if the problem goes away. Then we
>> can determine if the problem is user-settings related or global.
>>
>> Good thinking about turning off all the eye candy! +1
>>
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