mouseemu simulates middle and right mouse button presses for users with only one mouse button (Apple laptop users without an external mouse). It uses the uinput kernel module which allows a program to inject input events, which is how it fakes the button presses. The manpage for mouseemu says that by default it uses /dev/uinput, /dev/input/uinput or /dev/misc/uinput to send its events. mouseemu also supports a feature that is supposed to disable the trackpad when the keyboard is in use. The problem appears to be that /dev/input/uinput on Ubuntu corresponds to an external mouse and not to the internal trackpad. And by default the keyboard-disabling feature is enabled, so the external mouse gets locked up when the keyboard is in use.
One temporary fix for the problem besides removing mouseemu is to disable the typing block by replacing the relevant line in /etc/default/mouseemu with: TYPING_BLOCK="-typing-block 0" and restarting mouseemu with sudo /etc/init.d/mouseemu restart This fixes the problem of the mouse freezing, but mouseemu is still a lame duck because its other useful features still only apply to an external mouse and not to the trackpad. The way to really fix the problem is to make /dev/input/uinput correspond to the trackpad. So who knows how to do this? -- [Feisty[mouseemu]Freeze of usb mouse while using keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113344 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
