On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:29:36PM +0100, Petter Adsen wrote: > 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. > I'm pretty sure it's nothing to do with the mousepad, looking at other reports of the same problem it's down to software somewhere. If you think about it *how* could the mouse hardware know anything about the position of the pointer on the screen?
... in addition this is a Lenove Thinkpad with two independent sets of mouse buttons and cursor movement hardware, both show the same symptoms when it happens. I will try plugging an external mouse in next time it happens though. -- Chris Green -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
