Bug#503470: xserver-xorg: hitting any keyboard key freezes mouse (until ~1sec after key is released)
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:57 +0100, Marc Poulhiès wrote:
> Brice Goglin wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 01:04:36PM +0100, Marc Poulhiès wrote:
> >
> >> Package: xserver-xorg
> >> Version: 1:7.3+18
> >> Severity: important
> >>
> >> Using the keyboard freezes the mouse. It can move again after ~1sec
> >> after the last key is released.
> >> Pressing the ALT key gives another behavior: mouse cursor is frozen and
> >> all Z movements are handled as wheel events ?!
Could it be that you have some kind of daemon running which is supposed
to prevent spurious trackpad input while typing and which allows
simulating wheel events with a trackpad while the alt key is pressed?
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