Weird mouse problem (clicks not being performed, …)

pano · 2010-06-05 21:58:59

Recently I am suffering from a really weird problem.

The middle mouse button shows a really strange behaviour:

I'm using KDE from [extra], and middle clicking e.g. a link in a webbrowser (no matter which toolkit it uses) instead of opening one tab, opens the link in several tabs.
Also middle clicking on a tab, normally should close *one* tab, while here it often closes more than one tab. Since this happens in every application I use, no matter which toolkit is used, this cannot be a KDE/Qt problem, since e.g. Firefox is affected by it too. I also doubt that GTK is the cause of this problem…

[The middle clicking problem has been solved, by cleaning the mouse wheel]

[The problem below, still persists]

Furthermore, sometimes my laptop looks like it enters a "state", where my clicks are not "performed" the normal way:
E.g. I had a media player running, when my laptop got into this "state". No matter where I clicked on this app, the clicking action was performed on the Play button. Using Alt+Tab to focus another window/bring it to the front, and clicking in this window anywhere again resulted in the Play button getting clicked.

After quitting the media player app (through a keyboard shortcut) my clicks still did not work normal. They still simply were not performed. In order to "re-gain" the ability to click, I had to log out first.
Since I've setup my Arch Linux not to automatically start X/KDM after logging out, I found myself in the terminal, where I ran startx, in order to run KDE.
The terminal still had some output of my X session, but it wasn't displayed with normal characters, but rather with some weird characters, looking all scrambled and stuff, as you can see on the screenshot. http://imagebin.org/100067

I currently use the packages from the testing repo, but IIRC this behaviour was there even before installing the testing repo packages.
Extra information:

kernel26 2.6.34-1
xorg-server 1.8.1-1
nvidia 195.36.24-2
xf86-input-evdev 2.4.0-1

I run Arch Linux x86_64 on an Acer 5741G Laptop, with a NVidia Geforce GT 320M.

Interestingly, another user who suffers from the same bug is running a computer with intel graphics, so it probably is not the nvidia driver causing the problem either.
Originally the bug was reported as a rekonq bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238987

Thank you

Last edited by pano (2010-06-09 11:43:21)

pano · 2010-06-07 19:39:24

update:

I tried starting KDE from KDM, but the strange behaviour is still persistent…

eldragon · 2010-06-07 19:53:09

have you tried replacing the mouse?

faulty middle button might bounce on every click issuing several clicks at a time

lucke · 2010-06-07 20:14:02

Run xev in Konsole and see how many events you get when middle-clicking.

demian · 2010-06-07 20:53:18

Try another WM/DE like Openbox or LXDE to see if the behaviour persists.

Maybe using xset to modifiy the mouse settings will help, too.

Last edited by demian (2010-06-07 20:53:52)

pano · 2010-06-09 10:30:38

ok, I opened up my mouse and cleaned it a bit, and now the middle click issue seems to be gone (xev shows "normal" behaviour when middle clicking into it, while it didn't, before I cleaned the mouse).
The other issue just occured to me right now though…
I thought both issues had the same cause, apparently I were wrong

ReedWood · 2010-07-12 21:27:40

Hello,

I seem to suffer from the same problem. Sometimes (perhaps triggered by amarok, but I have to investigate this further before blaming this app) the left mouse button stops working. I can not perform left-klicks anymore. Everything is fine with the right button. If I log out and in again the mouse if fully back. In this loop X has not been restarted.

My setup:
KDE 4.4.5 (official packages)
X: X.Org X Server 1.8.1.902 (1.8.2 RC 2)
kernel: 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT
architecture: x86_64
mouse: Logitech MX1000 Laser (Logitech, Inc. MX-1000 Cordless Mouse Receiver)

If s.o. will ever work in this I will be happy to provide any information I can come up with.

Cheers and good night.

pano · 2010-07-12 21:30:46

I think it might have to do something with the KDE mouse gestures…
Do you have those enabled?

I recently disabled them and didn't see this problem anymore since then…

ReedWood · 2010-07-13 20:24:55

Had been enabled. Disabled now. Testing...

Thanks for the info.

Arch Linux

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Weird mouse problem (clicks not being performed, …)

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