Hello, I have managed to solve a strange problem with Xfce and mouse button click that I think appeared some months ago after the typical sequence 'aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade'.
I'm using Debian 'sid' and, although I don't think this could be a broad problem, it may help somebody in the future. Although it happened that the problem was not related to an specific package version this are the current packages that I consider are related to the bug: xserver-xorg 1:7.3+8 xfce4 4.4.2 The problem I have been suffering for some months was mainly related with the behavior of mouse left button. The symptoms were: * Unable to 'drag' windows clicking on the window title bar * Unable to drag icons around desktop * Unable to open the Xfce4 menu * Unable to open drop down menus like 'File', 'Edit', 'View', ... on apps like Thunar, Iceweasel, etc. * Unable to right click on links in order to perform operations like 'Save Link As...' in Iceweasel As you can see, it was a rather strange behavior. I tried a lot of things like: removing Xfce4 (aptitude purge xfce4*) and reinstalling it, deleting config files as suggested here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66916) and, as you could imagine, nothing worked. Trying to determine if it was an Xfce4 problem or an X problem I installed Icewm and... it worked! so I was almost convinced it was an Xfce4 problem, but... After some more tweaking I discovered this in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file: ... Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection ... Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Generic Mouse" EndSection I do not remember since when did I have two input devices related with mouses but, as I'm using a laptop, and I have both track point and touch pad devices on it, I thought each section was related to one of them. As a last resort I commented the 'Configured Mouse' section and restarted X but mouse problems still there. Then, I commented the other one (the 'Generic Mouse') and ... I could not belive it! it was working! I could now drag windows and icons, and clicking on drop down menus worked too and, when clicking with the right button on a link on Iceweasel, the proper context menu appeared!. As I said, I don't remember exactly when this started to happen (and I still don't know why it does work with Icewm) but, since I installed and configured this laptop four years ago -later on 2003 IIRC-, and the only maintenance I have been doing on it is regular 'upgrading' via aptitude, that xorg.conf is probably an automatic conversion of the oldie XF86Config. Hope this helps somebody someday. Regards, Ignacio. ______________________________________________ ¿Chef por primera vez? Sé un mejor Cocinillas. http://es.answers.yahoo.com/info/welcome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
