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Mouse Broken [SOLVED]

After booting today my mouse left click stopped working on my thinkpad t460s. I've tried with the touchpad, external wired and external wireless mice but none work. I can still move the mouse with all of them, and sometimes the right click will work but no left click or dragging, or hovering. I've tried disabling the touchpad in bios, disconnecting it manually, but still nothing. I am running arch with Plasma desktop. Didn't really do anything to my system at all so I'm not really sure why it broke. I'm not really a linux pro so if anyone could help me out that would be great. Thanks.

Last edited by 2star (2025-12-29 00:50:23)

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Re: Mouse Broken [SOLVED]

Also if someone could move this to the correct thread I currently cannot use my mouse...

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Re: Mouse Broken [SOLVED]

Mod note: moving to kernel and hardware

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Re: Mouse Broken [SOLVED]

Didn't really do anything to my system at all so I'm not really sure why it broke.

Update?

I am running arch with Plasma desktop.

Do you get this w/ plasma on X11 or anything that's not plasma?
Chances are a button is stuck (physically or logically) - on X11 "xinput query-state <id>" can tell you whether some button is considered to be down (but that's not a hard measure)
I'd first try w/o any external device attached.

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Re: Mouse Broken [SOLVED]

Solved: I reconnected the ribbon from the touchpad and it started working again. The problem was my external mouse, the left click is dead however I'm not sure why I couldn't use the touchpad by itself since it's working now and I tried without any external mouse connected from boot and it wasn't working. Weird. Thanks for your help.