No laptop, no touchpad for me. I've got a standard USB mouse on a desktop. For me the bug happened as I was toggling mplayer fullscreen and back. I've done that many times since and the bug hasn't come up again.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Alba Pompeo <albapom...@gmail.com> wrote: > After searching for a long time, I think I found the bug report about > this issue. > It's really either a libinput or xorg bug. > Are you using a laptop with touchpad by any chance? > Blacklisting the touchpad input seems to have fixed it for me, but > it's still too soon to be sure. You should give it a try and report > back. > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26213#c22 > Let me know if that works for you. > And now I'm even more prompt to jump ship and install Wayland. Xorg is > a pain in the ass. > > Ciao. > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Andrew Fuller <a...@google.com> wrote: >> I ran into the same issue about a week ago, using i3wm+st. Exactly the >> same symptoms as you described, and it's the first time it's ever >> happened to me. Unfortunately I "fixed" it by unplugging/replugging my >> house and I don't know how to reproduce it. But I haven't restarted >> any software or rebooted since then, so the problem should still exist >> on my setup. Let me know if I can help you track this down. >> >> Andrew >> >> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Alba Pompeo <albapom...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Dears, >>> >>> I have a weird bug and I'm not sure how to find the culprit. >>> I'm using dwm and from time to time my mouse pointer gets locked. >>> Highlighting text on st doesn't work, right-clicking on firefox >>> doesn't work, left-click dragging on pdf-reader doesn't work, slock >>> errors, windows don't get focused and other clumsy things. When I >>> restart X the problem is solved, but it soon happens again. >>> I'm very lost as what's the cause of this. >>> I tried logging dwm's stderr, but found nothing relevant there. >>> The only clue I have is that when I try to run slock while the bug is >>> happening, I get this message --- slock: unable to grab mouse pointer >>> for screen 0 >>> Who could be the culprit here? dwm? xorg? driver? >>> Can anyone think of a way to debug this? >>> Thanks a lot. >>> >>> Ciao. >>> >> >
