Since you've seen this problem since Fedora 8, I can assume that you've had this laptop for a while.
I work in IT for a major college, and we see issues like this on a number of laptops with the track nub mouse, both on Windows XP and Fedora*. Cleaning out the nub mouse usually helps the situation, but I don't believe it to be a software issue as it spans two OSs. -Sean On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Jeff Weston <[email protected]>wrote: > Since about Fedora 8, and definitely in Fedora 9 and 10, there has been a > problem > with the window manager on Dell Latitude laptops with two mouse inputs > (touch > pad and joystick-style). Occasionally, it will do very strange things when > you > use the joystick-style mouse (the touchpad works perfectly though) ... > maximize > windows while you're moving them, double-click files you're trying to move, > leave selections on the desktop that can't be removed via a refresh, and > once > in a while, it will actually lock X up hard, requiring the old > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This behavior may be more common when using the > joystick > Mouse with the touchpad's buttons, but I'm not sure. > > Sorry if this is a dupe, I didn't know exactly what to search for. And > like I > said, it's been there a while, though I realize that a laptop with two > built-in > mouse interfaces is somewhat uncommon... > > Also submitted as Bugzilla bug #488836, with no acknowledgement in 6 > weeks... > > Thanks, > -Jeff Weston > > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list >
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