That *VERY* much sounds like hardware. Like, a lot. 1) If it's a wireless mouse, change the batteries.
If it's *not* wireless, disable the trackpad and switch to a different external mouse. Assuming the issue goes away (which I bet it will), re-enable one, then the other, and see who's at fault. -Ken On 2016-03-25 11:37, Tyson Sawyer wrote: > I can't figure out what regexp to apply to the internet to find an > answer to this. I am running Mint Xfce 7.3 and it has been solid. > But the past few weeks I've run into a few problems that seemed to > come from nowhere. > > I'm finding that mouse events are getting messed up. The mouse > pointer and keyboard seem to always work. The mouse events do not. > Sometimes widgets do not respond to mouse-over or clicks. I've seen > occasional phantom responses in when I didn't click. I've seen > buttons "depress" when clicked, but there is no other response. It > will often start as specific windows or specific regions of windows > and or system menus. It quickly degrades to no mouse functionality > other than the pointer moving. I haven't seen that the track pad > behaves any different from the mouse. > > I can temporarily clear the problem by switching to a text console and > then back to X. > > I have tried different kernel versions, older and newer. The older > and current had been working fine. None of them work now. I've tried > a few varying from ~3.13 through 4.4.0. > > I tried installing Cinnamon to see if it was an Xfce thing, but the > behavior remained. > > I haven't found a error log that provides any hints. > > Any suggestions? If I can't clear this up, I'm going to have to try a > clean re-install which would be a major downer. > > Thanks! > Ty _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/