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jstefanelli

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Registered: 2018-02-07

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[SOLVED] Window focus is messed up, and other strange behaviour

Hi, sorry for the probably rushed and not super polite post, but I'm tearing my hair out.

Since today I started having HUGE issues with my system (ArchInstall, Ryzen 5800X, NVidia 4080 with proprietary drivers, KDE Plasma (& more), Wayland)

The first thing that happened was that window focus started getting "stuck", meaning I could move my mouse around the screens (2 displays, 2K main and 1080p second) but clicks only registered in the window where the focus got stuck. This sometimes gets fixed by unplugging and replugging my mouse, sometimes not. This also affects the Plasma docks & desktop.

After a while, seemingly randomly, a series of "paste" commands happened. What do I mean: if I was in Firefox, or Discord, in a text field, whatever was in my clipboard would get spammed. This still happens occasionally, even while writing this post (what fun....).

My first thought was a broken update, or something. So I tried booting with the linux-lts kernel (since I remembered that one of the latest updates was the kernel). No dice.

Then I tried going back a few days with my system by pointing pacman to the archive repository. Nothing.
I tried logging into Plasma with X11. Still issues.
I tried installing Sway (which is where I'm writing this from, since I can at least keyboard around the window focus). Still issues.

I do not know how to debug this further, I'd appreciated not just solutions if you've encountered this before, but even just places where I can go and look what my KB/M are actually doing.

Last edited by jstefanelli (2024-08-07 11:59:40)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Window focus is messed up, and other strange behaviour

Still issues.

Some input device generates spurious events, run "libinput debug-events" and keep your hands off the keyboard and mouse and see what shows up.
If the same events show up in evtest,it's probably a hardware issue. Could be the device, could be the bus (or even radio interference if you've a wireless device and so does your neighbour…)

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jstefanelli

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Registered: 2018-02-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Window focus is messed up, and other strange behaviour

Problem solved. My mouse is dying. Plugged in an ancient MS one and everything is fine.