I thought I was losing my mind!
I have also been experiencing this issue, and today finally managed to
narrow it down to a specific cause. My issue starts when I am making use
of the CTRL+SHIFT+PRTSCR shortcut to take a screenshot of an area you
select.
I use this function frequently, and it
but it reappeared after some time
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I experienced the same issue but it dissappeared after i purged my xorg
installation and reinstalled it from root shell(ctrl+alt+F4). i think main
issue was with libinput in my case.
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Whoa! I have experienced something interesting.
The issue disappeared when I tried to debug something with mouse and use `xev`.
After starting it (and also after closing it) - focus issue disappeared.
It would be awesome if this helped to fix it. Not sure if this is related but
I'm temporary
@arnfranke
I just experienced it too last week. I'm using Ubuntu since 2015.
Current mouse (trackball) I used from the beginning of 2020. It works with no
issue with Ubuntu 18.04. Issue occurred just after last Ubuntu update (middle
of August).
Whats funny when I have my mouse/trackball plugged
I just experienced this behavior with Ubuntu 20.04 (Gnome, X11, Nvidia
GTX 1070). Only one window had focus. Some windows appeared in front of
the focused window, but I could not click on them - clicking on them
only sent mouse clicks to the window in the background. The "dots" in
the dock that
I'm having these exact symptoms on 17.10, all the time. I can only go a
few minutes without triggering this bug.
Thinkpad X1 Tablet, clean install of 17.10, happens in both X and
Wayland sessions.
(In fact I can't click the "post comment" button, and have to hit tab,
enter to post the comment!)
Hi all, arch linux user with logitech wireless mouse, having the same problem.
I tried using a different display server (weston on wayland) to make sure that
it was an Xorg-specific bug, but on weston I couldn't click anything, so it's
probably not X-related. I also tried switching between
I've had this issue on my Samsung laptop with ubuntu 14.04, linux mint 17 and
kali linux. As Kali is a Debian distro, it is not only an Ubuntu issue.
Disabling the touchpad and using only my mouse allows me to avoid any issua,
but I'd like to be able to use my laptop like a laptop.
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@ staticint (0xa5) I am having the same issue with ubuntu 14.04 running gnome,
though my mouse is the Cyborg RAT 9. This mouse isnt outdated as it is.
So far the only work around is unplugging and plugging back in. But sometimes
it happend more often so i have to reboot.
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Also happens to me on 12.04 in Gnome Classic Mode from time to time.
Happens to plugged devices or integrated touchpads too.
Using the context menu click and left clicks in some wild fashion may
release the stuck focus, but no clear picture what event exactly
releases the stuck focus.
Triggering
I can confirm that this bug happens on Ubuntu 14.04 Gnome.
The problem is that some mice are getting stuck after left clicking;
from what I have read, I think this only applies to those using wireless
mice.
I am using the Logitech M-RBF111 Mouse which uses an old wireless communication
system
KDE 4.8.5 Ubuntu 12.4 got all updates, maybe you have missed update for
me, or if not, then this fix does not work and made things worse, this
is the first time I have encounter this bug.
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WW!
alx (iamalx) hit the nail in the head for me. My wireless mouse had been
having this random issue ever since Ubuntu 10.04 (now on Linux 13 Maya)
running 3.20.0-36 and xserver-xorg 1:7.6+12ubuntu2
I have a Logitech MX100 wireless mouse.
I hope this helps some other poor soul looking for
I have never hit this bug before, but for reference, I just hit it on a
10.04 LTS system; I let update-manager update it all the time so it
should have all the lucid updates. It was freshly installed to 10.04
from a CD about 2 years ago. x86-64.
I wasn't doing anything weird, I had just picked
I believe this is fixed in lucid updates already, at least the ddd case
is and it probably fixed this too. If you can still reproduce with
11.04, please open a new bug.
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I can reproduce it on different hardware!
I connected my wireless mouse/keyboard (USB Labtec - some kind of cheap
chinise brand) to my Asus EeePC 901 with installed Ubuntu 10.04 (earlier
I had this bug at my box on 9.10 and 10.04) and it currently shows
analogical behavior. Re-plugging
Running Karmic 9.10, on a laptop with a trackpad and USB mouse. I ran
the command given by Darryl in comment #57 and the tendency to regain
and keep focus of a window improved slightly. Still not great though, as
every time I try to switch focus to a window (or lose it due to
interacting with the
Additional note:
When I reproduce this issue with ddd, I find that the only way to
unfreeze the cursor is to telnet into my machine from my Windows box and
then kill the ddd process.
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I'm having the exact same issues. I've been monitoring this thread in
the hopes that someone, somewhere will come out with a fix or a work
around that works.
To add my 5c, on my laptop, a dv3510NR, the trouble only exhibits itself
after a few suspend-resume cycles. It's completely random in that
I wanted to confirm what an earlier poster indicated: I can reliably
reproduce this issue by debugging a program in ddd and then right
clicking on a variable.
xserver-xorg : 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7
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Got the same problem in debian testing (squeeze) for a while. I tried
removing the wacom and synaptics input drivers and hope this will be
effective. I'll report back about that.
Following workarounds were more or less effective for me: rightclicking
on desktop after Super+D, restarting window
Unplugging and re-plugging my USB mouse temporarily 'unsticks' it too.
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Bug has just struck me upgrading (with update-manager tool) from 9.10 to
10.04. Happened immediately and persistently from the very first login.
I removed:
dpkg --remove --ignore-depends=xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-
input-wacom xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
...and now my system is usable
I have the same problem after upgrading karmic to lucid but only when I
use my bluetooth mouse. If I boot with my wired mouse, I never have
focus problems; when I work from home and use my wireless bluetooth
mouse, the problem recurs without fail. I haven't yet experimented with
using my
Yes, this bug still exists on Lucid with latest updates, but it is now
much less frequent. On Karmic it would happen every 1-2 days. I've
been running Lucid for over a month and it has taken this long to happen
only once. (I use my computer all day every day.)
Exactly the same bug: Focus is
Can confirm this for 9.10 install CD and after 10.4 upgrade. Also, it
appears on Gentoo.
ALT-F2 and metacity --replace fixes this for a short time.
Removing wacom and synaptics input drivers doesn't help.
Configuration:
Desktop system with Intel motherboard and Pentium IV.
Video: 00:02.0 VGA
Hmm - for the past week I have been running Lucid (clean install from
alt-installer) with attached Genius G-pen 509 tablet attached and wizardpen
input driver.
The problem has not recurred for me in that time.
This is the same machine on which I observed the bug with Jaunty and my
tablet.
petter wahlman (comment #44), I suspect your bug is different; with ddd,
there's a very specific and reproducible way to make this happen. That
issue is covered by bug 574157. My quick reading of the rest of this bug
is that it's something that happens randomly to people whilst not doing
anything
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This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?
Please note we also provide technical support for older versions of
Ubuntu, but not in the bug tracker. Instead, to raise the issue through
normal
I made some tests on a toshiba that has this problem in 9.10, usig 10.04
beta2 live cd and could not reproduce the problem, but I can't say 100%
it does not exist anymore as it is not my pc so I could make further
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cheers,
glenn.
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This bug was
Hmm, it would help to have detailed, specific steps to reproduce this
issue and/or pinpoint to the hardware it can be seen on. I've never
seen this bug myself, on any of the hardware I've tested.
While I don't deny this is a legitimate issue and probably extremely
annoying when it occurs, I
Going on #20's suggestion above, I did a complete removal of the
xserver-xorg-input-wacom and xserver-xorg-input-synaptics packages
from my 10.04 system. I can't be certain, as the problem has always
been intermittent for me, but it seems to have gone away. My xorg.conf
file made no reference to
Hmm... after one more reboot the problem seems to have disappeared for
now.
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I have never had this problem before. However, today, when browsing
using Firefox, without having changed any settings or installed any
updates, the problem has set in and hasn't gone away since. I'm using
Lucid.
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I can reliably reproduce the problem by debugging a program with DDD, and
right-clicking on a variable in the data window.
The pointer get's stuck in the data window, and no gnome window manager
shortcuts work.
To get the machine back
I appear to have the same problem - clean install of ubuntu karmic.
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I had to change from gnome to xfce since gnome is unusable. (locks every ~10
mouse clicks)
Now on xfce it still happens, but the rate has gone from 10 mouse clicks to
maybe 1-2 times a day.
Do you think it's possible to reset the mouse position using a shortcut when
this happens?
something
I can confirm this bug on updated 9.10, even using only the live CD, nothing
additional installed.
On my system is SO easy to make it happen. Just open any window (terminal for
example) and select titlebar to move it a little several times, it will happen
on 3rd or 4th time.
Also another easy
I discovered that by changing the USB port that my mouse was plugged
into would cause the problem to go away for a while. It will always come
back in time (a few hours, days, or weeks), but at least it's a partial
solution.
This does not happen on other operating systems (namely Windows XP and
I can confirm the bug on a Dell Mini 9 with Synaptics touchpad, with
bluetooth mouse and with USB mouse. Clean install with karmic several
times.. even from mini.iso and adding packages manually. The bug appears
after a while.
Trying the xorg downgrade and hoping for a fix soon.. its a VERY
Tried adding xorg-edgers ppa, but newest xorg doesnt fix it
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Okay, I think my problem is that the touchpad driver locks the touchpad
clicked, i.e. it thinks I've clicked-and-held.
I get these messages beforehand in dmesg:
[124746.285974] psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at
byte 5
[124746.287564] psmouse.c: GlidePoint at
I think this is the bug I had.. And I also thinks it has something to do
with the window manager or window themes. Hitting Alt+F2 and entering
metacity --replace sometimes fixed the issues I had. So I tried
installing XFCE instead of GNOME as it uses another window manager. I've
had no problems so
I can't tell if this is the same issue, but recently I've been coming out of
suspend sometimes and finding almost nothing responds to clicks (karmic x64,
up-to-date). When it happens, I can still click in some places, but the panel
doesn't do anything, alt-tab doesn't work, the cursor doesn't
run into it in jaunty x64
Unpluging wacom tablet as mentined here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/374417/comments/3
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Glenn Moloney: The same problem - downgraded X.org consumes 1 CPU core,
while the system is completely useable. So - still waiting for
definitive solution of this one...
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I don't have enough trials to rule out coincidence, but it seems to
happen to me only when I have a web cam connected. I can't figure out
what the connection is, but I was experiencing the problem with one
camera, disconnected the camera and returned it because of unrelated
issues, and didn't
No webcam has ever been installed on my computer affected.
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Happens to me too on both a clean install and upgrade. It seems that
restarting the Xserver a few times after logging in seems to give
relief. Upgraded to latest Jaunty.
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I have also been hit by this one. I had upgraded from Intrepid to Jaunty
shortly after it was released. The bug did not surface till 3 - 4 weeks
ago after an upgrade. I am now at the latest Jaunty and still seeing
this problem, which is solved by logging in, and logging out immediately
after
found this
https://bugs.launchpad.net/fedora/+source/xorg-
server/+bug/296167/+viewstatus
someone needs to apply this, test it, and release it to ubuntu ASAP.
leaving this bug unfixed is absurd
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I get it first in an upgrade from Intrepid, on a desktop+usb mouse
Then I get it from an almost clean install of Jaunty, on laptop+usb mouse.
Almost clean, because everything seems to be OK before activating the compiz
related extra display features which also need to use an nvidia driver, and
same problem. First time trying (k)ubuntu of any version. I'm using
nvidia driver with TV as only display + usb wireless mouse. Very
annoying bug. Its far less frequent when I use x2x to remotely control
the mouse. Either way I'm hoping for a fix very soon that doesn't
involve downgrading
FWIW, I'm experiencing this issue on an from-CD Jaunty install with
relatively few extra packages installed and minimal configuration
changes. I'm on a sony sz340 laptop using the trackpad.
Running skill -u ... to terminate my session from another console and
logging back in seems to fix the
Did experience on Intrepid-Jaunty Upgrade; however, I've done a clean
install of Jaunty—unrelated—and it still occasionally affects me.
Possibly with lower frequency.
Laptop. Toshiba Tecra A9 with one of many processors denoted Centrino
Duo (Santa Rosa according to Wikipedia). Intel x3100
Paul I also disabled all the lines refering to wacom tablets as I
don't have any :) the bug doesn't affect me anymore.
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As far as I can remember, the problem started for me after i tried to
install a wiimote. It was a fresh install. Reinstalled jaunty from
scratch without the wiimote solved the problem. I think i'll retry
wiimote installation before the end of june.
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In an attempt to find commonality, can each of you confirm that you have
this issue on a box where you upgraded from Intrepid - Jaunty and not
on a clean install of Jaunty directly from the CD.
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Laptops that have a trackpad (synaptic device)
or
Laptop with a trackpad + external USB mouse
or
Desktop with a USB mouse.
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Sorry, Desktop with a USB mouse
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Hello David,
In my case:
- yes, it's present after upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty
- i do not know, if it's present in Jaunty clean install - i did not try that,
but:
it's not user-profile (user-settings) related (= bug is present for newly
created users too)
- i've resolved this bug by
Hello, following the advice from the support, I've disabled synaptics
for now in the xorg.conf file (commented all line referring to a
synaptics device). The bug hasn't occured since then
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it's xorg server bug, not related to any particular video driver
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After many experiments...
it seems to be xinerama bug in xorg-server-1.6.0 - and yes, xinerama is
activated even if you use only one display output. and yes - it is
build-in into xorg-server, and CAN'T be deactivated (tried every
possible option in xorg.conf)
The only solution, which works for
See bug #374417
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Temp solution (for me) : Right click before left click everything.
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Well my xorg log is flooded with these:
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
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Update: Restarting HAL has no effect (which was still running at the time).
When issue occurs, Xorg.0.log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) displays messages:
PATEN USB HID Device: Device reopened after 1 attempts
That message is displayed several times over.
This is the log when Xserver starts up to
The same after upgrading to Jaunty.
It seems to be:
- unrelated to used desktop enviromnent (gnome, xfce, kde)
- unrelated to video hardware / driver (I have Geforce FX 5200, tried both nv,
and nvidia drivers), and it seems other people with intel gpu do have the same
bug too
Main suspects:
-
I have found an interesting (but temporary) solution to this bug that
doesn't require a GDM restart, and hopefully will give the developers a
better idea where the issue lies:
I have found that using the hotkeys to switch my workspace to one
without any application windows, then right clicking
Also experiencing this issue after an upgrade to jaunty. Here's some
info (when the bug occurs):
Tried my old dist-upgrade xorg.conf with no sucess.
Xorg.0.conf, messages, dmesg, syslog, debug show no errors when this occurs.
Issue occurs with compiz enabled also, regardless of what modules are
I have the same problem after dist-upgrading to Jaunty from Intrepid.
* In my case the effect is present even with only one open window.
* Switching workspaces with hotkey does not work for me
* Neither Alt-Right-click
* Drag-drop trick works only when there's something draggable in greedy area
The Bug #361983 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/361983/ could be
related to this, although, 361983 is KUbuntu one, but the somptoms are
quite similar
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When this occurs, it would appear that the point at which mouse events
occur is also locked, though I have a very difficult time confirming.
Specifically, when the focus is locked on the xfce4-panel system tray
applet, context-menu-click (default right-click) brings the context menu
associated
When this occurs, it would appear that the point at which mouse events
occur is also locked, though I have a very difficult time confirming.
Specifically, when the focus is locked on the xfce4-panel system tray
applet, context-menu-click (default right-click) brings the context menu
associated
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