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rwd

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[SOLVED] xfce-panel causing problems with mouse/touchpad

Since upgrading the packages below  I mouseclicks occasionally do not work.  Also scrolling using the scrollwheel and touchpad doesn't start sometimes. I determined it is not a problem with the mouse or touchpad because 'xev' shows the correct events firing. Also  I see the icon change from arrow to hand when clicking.

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It appears that "xfce4-panel" is the cause. I use tint2 instead of  xfce-panel, but the process running an empty panel is started by default and  somehow interfered with mouse and touchpad events. solved it by removing it from the session, and comment it out in /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml
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[2011-01-19 21:39] synchronizing package lists
[2011-01-19 21:39] starting full system upgrade
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded libxfce4util (4.8.1-1 -> 4.8.1-1)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded exo (0.6.0-2 -> 0.6.0-2)
[2011-01-19 21:57] Generating locales...
[2011-01-19 21:57]   en_US.UTF-8... done
[2011-01-19 21:57]   en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
[2011-01-19 21:57]   nl_NL.UTF-8... done
[2011-01-19 21:57]   nl_NL.ISO-8859-1... done
[2011-01-19 21:57] Generation complete.
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded glibc (2.12.2-2 -> 2.12.2-2)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded x264 (20110115-1 -> 20110115-1)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded ffmpeg (26387-1 -> 26387-1)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded gdisk (0.6.14-1 -> 0.6.14-1)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded gstreamer0.10-ugly (0.10.16-2 -> 0.10.16-2)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins (0.10.16-2 -> 0.10.16-2)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded gtk-xfce-engine (2.8.0-1 -> 2.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded lib32-gcc-libs (4.5.2-4.2 -> 4.5.2-4.2)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded libjpeg (8.3.0-1 -> 8.3.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded xfconf (4.8.0-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded libxfcegui4 (4.8.0-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:57] upgraded mplayer (32792-1 -> 32792-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] when you use a non-reparenting window manager
[2011-01-19 21:58] set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 in
[2011-01-19 21:58] /etc/profile.d/openjdk6.sh
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded openjdk6 (6.b20_1.9.4-1 -> 6.b20_1.9.4-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] [2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded openssh (5.6p1-2 -> 5.6p1-2)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded pcre (8.12-1 -> 8.12-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded terminal (0.4.5-2 -> 0.4.5-2)
[2011-01-19 21:58] [2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded thunar (1.2.0-1 -> 1.2.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded thunar-volman (0.6.0-1 -> 0.6.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded udisks (1.0.2-2 -> 1.0.2-2)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded vim-runtime (7.3.102-1 -> 7.3.102-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded vim (7.3.102-1 -> 7.3.102-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded vlc (1.1.5-3 -> 1.1.5-3)
[2011-01-19 21:58] [2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded xfburn (0.4.3-3 -> 0.4.3-3)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded xfce-utils (4.8.0-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] [2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded xfce4-appfinder (4.8.0-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded xfce4-dev-tools (4.8.0-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded xfce4-panel (4.8.0-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded xfce4-mixer (4.6.1-2 -> 4.6.1-2)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded xfce4-notifyd (0.2.0-1 -> 0.2.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded xfce4-session (4.8.0-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded xfce4-settings (4.8.0-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded xfdesktop (4.8.0-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 21:58] upgraded xfwm4 (4.8.0-1 -> 4.8.0-1)

Last edited by rwd (2011-01-23 14:01:25)