On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:04:19 +0000 Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am having mouse focus problems on my laptop running xubuntu 15.10. > > Every so often (and it seems to be happening more frequently recently) > the mouse pointer 'sticks' in one mode, not always the same mode > though. > > For example sometimes it gets stuck in 'character pointer' mode, the > 'I' like cursor. Everything works as normal in the terminal window > which 'owns' the cursor but, although it moves all over the screen, > the pointer stays as a cursor and doesn't do anything when clicked. > > Another time the pointer stuck as an arrow and would only work in the > workspace switcher though, as always, I could move the pointer all > over the screen. > > I *think* restarting xfwm4 fixes it but I'm not absolutely sure yet. > > It's possible that some wierd setting has got misconfigured though I > have looked through the mouse and window manager settings and can't > see anything particularly wrong. > > I've searched and found some fairly old (i.e. older xubuntu versions) > reports of a similar problem but there doesn't seem to be any > particular fix - except that of restarting the window manager. > > Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? Do you still get the same behavior with an external mouse? That would be the first thing to test. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive." -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
