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Rorasaurus

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Registered: 2015-10-14

Posts: 1

Mouse cannot interact with menu bar - Cinnamon

Hi there!

I've recently built a new Arch Desktop after deciding Gentoo was simply too much hassle to continue with for my work PC. However I've run into a bizarre problem I've never come across, nor can I find anyone with exactly the same issue as me.

Installation is completed, Cinnamon installed, gdm etc. No issues.

The problem I have is my mouse cannot interact with anything in the GDM login. Keyboard is fine. Using tab I can authenticate. Once my desktop is displayed I cannot click on the menu bar. I can click anywhere else and fully interact with new windows which open but at no point can I use the menu bar.

I've tried a full re-install several times. I've tried reinstalling with a different mouse plugged in just in case I'm getting a driver issue with a certain mouse. I've used the Cinnamon tools to create a new menu bar, no joy. dmesg shows no errors when loading the mouse. Xorg logs show no errors. I've tried various mouse scripting tools such as xdotool.

For the first time, Google has failed me. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,113

Re: Mouse cannot interact with menu bar - Cinnamon

Same issue as in this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=203628?