Re: [Trisquel-users] Mouse click problems using trisquel 8 on T400s

2018-11-04 Thread lcotton
Thank you for the reply. Fn-F8 disables the touchpad and indeed if I disable it I can use a USB mouse fine. This suggests to me that there is something up with the touchpad itself, so I will probably end up having to send it back. However before I do that I'd like to check whether I have

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mouse click problems using trisquel 8 on T400s

2018-11-03 Thread lcotton
Hi Thank you for the reply. I followed the instructions and upgraded to 4.19. However the problem has if anything got worse - simply a movement of the mouse can instigate repeated appearance of right click menu resulting multitudes of new folders being created. The gui is pretty much

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mouse click problems using trisquel 8 on T400s

2018-11-01 Thread dknight
I also got problems with mouse and clicks. I solved the problems by upgrading more recent kernel 4.18.16-gnu. I have now 4.19-gnu no problems as well. How to upgrade your libre kernel you can read here https://jxself.org/linux-libre/ It is very easy to do.

[Trisquel-users] Mouse click problems using trisquel 8 on T400s

2018-11-01 Thread lcotton
Hi I have recently purchased a T400s which came with Trisquel installed. Release information comes up with: DISTRIB_ID=Trisquel DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.0 DISTRIB_CODENAME=flidas DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Trisquel GNU/Linux 8.0, Flidas" NAME="Trisquel GNU/Linux" VERSION="8.0, Flidas" ID=trisquel