Re: Strange mouse behaviour
On Friday 16 May 2008, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a weird problem with the mouse and I don't know what's happen.
> Since yesterday that I upgraded testing (before was working) my
> system worked ok, normal, as it has to work.
>
> But, when it upgraded X.org I got a problem that I had haven with the
> same version in unstable. Now, this version have arrived to testing
> and I got the same problem.
>
> I don't know how to describe it. Simple, the simple click have
> disappeared, but not completely. For example, if I click over a work
> in a editor (gedit or kedit) I have not the cursor over the word, I
> have the whole word selected, as if I have done double click and not
> simple click.
>
> Also, the menu entries are very difficult to chose, because I must
> keep the click done or the entry disappear. For example, the in
> qt4config, I _only_ could activate the entry menus with keyboard
> because I couldn't with the mouse.
>
> I posted this error in the debian-kde list when I had it the first
> time, but none said something. But now, looking a bit more deeply,
> it's not a problem of qt programs, it's a general problem of all X
> apps (with all users also)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Leo
Hi, Leo,
This sounds like a problem that I had a while ago with my home box,
which I had temporarily changed from testing to unstable. Apparently
the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf had not been properly updated. A
dpkg-reconfigure fixed the problem.
-Chris
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