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marshmallow

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Registered: 2018-07-05

Posts: 1

Mouse pointer does not work in KDE Plasma on Arch

Hi all,

I have recently installed Arch on VirtualBox and decided to use KDE Plasma as my desktop environment. I followed the Installation Guide and the KDE Plasma installation steps, and everything ran without issues until I started up KDE.

The mouse pointer has a weird issue where you can only click once in either SDDM login screen or KDE, then subsequent clicks will only work at that location. So if I click the application menu in KDE, my mouse cursor is 'locked' there, and I can only toggle the opening of the application menu. The cursor moves visually when the mouse moves, but all clicks are 'locked' at that previous position. Another weird thing is that the mouse cursor is different when above the bottom panel (where all the widgets and application menu are) then when above the wallpaper.

Any idea what's happening to my KDE installation? Feel free to ask for clarifications cause it's been driving me nuts and I can't wait to fix this issue of mine :S

Thanks!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: Mouse pointer does not work in KDE Plasma on Arch

Likely related: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=238209