Re: Activate the mouse after a reboot which didn't activate the mouse?

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

Some followup: on my Wheezy system, I find kpsmoused running, I don't see that 
on either my Jessie or Buster systems.

I'm guessing that kpmoused might be what helps the mouse run in Wheezy / non 
systemd.  I'm pretty sure that Buster is systemd, and maybe so is Jessie.  In 
any event, I can't find an actual file named kpsmoused on any of the systems 
(which surprises me on Wheezy).


On Friday, April 24, 2020 02:34:29 PM rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> Today I had to reboot my Jessie system, after Firefox totally hung the
> system (for over an hour, with 20 tabs open).  After the reboot, it seems
> that most things are working (well, the things I can test without a
> mouse), but the mouse is not working.
> 
> The Jessie system is connected to a KVM system, and because I had to run
> some errands, I started the boot process and then left, with the KVM set
> to the Jessie system.
> 
> When I came back and tried it, I found that the mouse is not working.  The
> mouse still works on the other two systems connected to the KVM switch.
> 
> I've tried googling and looking at (and trying some) commands found with
> apropos mouse or apropos x (a lot), but I haven't found a way to activate
> the mouse.
> 
> (I'm assuming that if I reboot and mouse around early after the reboot, the
> mouse will be activated, but I'd like to avoid another reboot, and maybe
> learn something.)
> 
> While I was looking for ways to activate the mouse, I did come across a
> place where I could click (well, via a keyboard shortcut) something that
> said something like: "activate mouse with KDE" -- maybe at some point in
> time I fat fingered something that unchecked that?
> 
> Anyway, suggestions appreciated.
> 
> I have tried to get to the "system settings" ahha, ok, I can type
> systemsettings at a CLI as user, but (1) I don't know how to navigate
> within that page to get to the mouse device, (2) but (on another system),
> although I see things to change about the mouse under Hardware ==> Input
> Devices ==> Mouse, I don't see anything that appears to activate (or
> de-activate) the mouse.
> 
> Suggestions appreciated.