[Solved] Re: Strange mouse behaviour

Keith Clark keithclark at k-wbookworm.com
Fri Mar 27 14:58:47 UTC 2009


Exactly what it was!  Fixed and thanks for hte hint.

Keith

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:31:38 -0700, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
> Keith Clark wrote:
>> My son must have set something incorrectly but for the life of me I
don't
>> know what or even how to describe what is happening clearly.
>>
>> Within a window, say Firefox, if the left mouse button is depressed, the
>> cursor turns into the four arrow keys and the movement of the mouse just
>> moves the window.  Just like it would do it the title bar were selected
>> and
>> dragged around.  It happens no matter where the cursor is within the
>> window.
>>
>> Clicking the left mouse button on a menu, like System drop down menu
>> still
>> works as normal.
>>
>> I hope I've described the problem clearly enough for someone to offer a
>> fix.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Keith
>>   
> Hello,
> 
> Is Compiz installed? There are settings within it that can produce the 
> behavior you are describing. I'm not sure of the exact plugin within 
> Compiz that would be responsible, but check each of them for the "key 
> bindings" section, and see if there is a setting to bind "move" to the 
> left mouse button.
> 
> That's the only thing I can think of that might be doing it. I was going 
> to suggest the Keyboard Shortcuts menu item under preferences, but I 
> don't think it sets anything for the mouse buttons, so would be a waste 
> of time.
> 
> Later, Ray Parrish
> 
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