On Thu 8 may, 2025, at 04:01, Van Snyder wrote:
> I have two mice: One is wireless, the other USB, both Logitech.
>
> Suddenly today, the buttons started deciding on their own what they meant.
> For example, the left button in the center of a Firefox tab closed the tab
> instead of "topping" it. The scroll wheel magnifies or shrinks instead of
> scrolling. Then if I use the other mouse, the correct behavior is restored.
>
> This is entirely new — never happened before today.
>
> I thought this was only a Firefox thing so I restarted it, but that didn't
> help. Then I reinstalled it, and that didn't help. I cleared all my history
> and caches and that didn't help. Then I noticed it in Okular and Evolution.
>
> I haven't rebooted.
>
> I'm using Debian 12 Bookworm. My kernel is 6.1.0-34-amd64.
>
> Is this a Debian thing, or a KDE thing, or a Wayland vs X thing? I don't
> know how to tell whether I'm using Wayland or X at the moment.
>
Maybe the buttons have been reassigned either through synclient or
through xinput.
I don't think you did it consciously, but, well, strange things happen...
Loïc
