*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 187313 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313
Still happening after all these years. /me sighs.
I confirm this is still happening on Saucy. I've never had any *buntu in which
it didn't happen. I suspect it is a mouse driver problem. Interesting that
someone also had it on xp. I suspect that may be a red herring though. It is
entirely possible that a xp or other windows has a similar problem and for a
similar reason. I've only experienced this on *buntus. Not on pclinuxos. Not on
Sabayon. Not on Salix. That could be coincidence, but I doubt it. It isn't just
firefox. I just had it on Saucy trying to use the openbox menu. 3 times in a
row. Twice it logged me out and the 3rd time it rebooted.
This a very lightweight system. Lighter than Lubuntu, lighter than plain
LXDE. I started with the 32 bit Saucy mini.iso and added xorg, openbox,
lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter, lxterminal, lxtask, firefox, 1 lxpanel
with a clock, 7 launchers (or whatever LX chaps call them), and a
taskbar. I have the autostart (I forger which one, one of the ones
associated with login at any rate) set NOT to start pcmanfm and draw a
desktop. My "desktop" is merely a featureless gray, which I'll change
to green when I get around to it. When I want to look at the ~/Desktop
directory I do it with pcmanfm in detail view like I view any other
directory. I tweaked appearnce by editing the theme files directly. In
summary, it is about as light as a gui system can be. My cpu is an AMD
Athlon(tm) II X2 245 Processor and Ihave 4 gigs of RAM. Nothing
amazing but it certainly should be adequate.
So, I suspect:
1 - There is a kind of quasi-randomness to this that makes it hard to
track down and leads people into spurious conclusions.
2 - While it is more likely to occur when some system resource, probably
cpu, is overstretched, it can still occur when load is quite low.
Firefox is probably associated with this a lot because it is a bit of
resource hog.
3 - This is probably a *buntu issue, or just possibly, a Debian issue.
Although I ran LMDE a while and I don't recall haveing it there. The
fellow who has it in xp probably experienced a different bug of the same
nature.
3 - It is most likely a mouse driver issue. Even if it isn't, it might
be easier to write a workaround into a mouse driver than to track the
actual problem. Could be as simple as making a right click equivalent to
right click and hold until a left click occurs.
4 - If there is a competition this has my vote for "most annoying *buntu
bug of all time".
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BTW, I'm not sure how this is going to post my "name". If it seems a tad
belligerent, it is because I was getting very frustrated trying to create a
launchpad account, and it isn't directed at anyone here.
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firefox 3 right-click menu chooses random options
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