mouse problem in KDE

[Shlomo Solomon]

I don't know if this is a KDE or X problem and because my computer is reacting 
VERY strangely, I can't really GOOGLE for this, so I hope someone can help.

I have a completely updated Mandriva 2010.0 box (KDE 4.3.5). For the past 2 or 
3 days, my mouse has started to act wierdly (I tried 3 different mice and 
several re-boots, so I don't think this is a hardware problem).

Here are the symptoms, and they seem to appear at random - sometimes only one 
symptom and sometimes several all together:

1 - The cursor moves on the screen, but clicking on icons doesn't work.
2 - Clicking "inside" an application works, but I can'r move or re-size a 
window.
3 - clicking on the toolbar to move to a different virtual desktop doesn't 
work.
4 - clicking on something in a window causes something to happen in a window 
UNDER the one I clicked on, as if the UPPER window was not there.
5 - scrollbar doesn't work but mouse wheel does OR the scrollbar works and the 
wheel doesn't.
6 - can't click on desktop icons (in fact, the icons don't get focus" when the 
mouse passes over them, but the K menu works.

When any of these symptoms start, I Ctrl-Atl-F1 and kill one or more 
applications and that usually "solves" the problem for only a few minutes.



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Shlomo Solomon
http://the-solomons.net
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