** Description changed: Shortly after upgrading to Jaunty (9.04) the left click on my laptop stopped working. It worked for a few days, then failed, interestingly enough. When Jaunty starts, it opens a drag-window, as if left is being held down. Could that be the issue? The left click works OK on an Intrepid live CD, so I've reinstalled Intrepid (8.10) on a new partition. It starts with a similar drag- window, but cancelling that allows the mouse to work properly. It's clear I'm not alone in the odd mouse isses here. The following look to me like they might all be related to this problem. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1135337 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1090383 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1144856 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1111242 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=991153 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7201163 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1123746 In my various researches I've found some references to Compiz causing these kind of problems, but as far as I know I do not use Compiz.... ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp Package: yelp 2.25.1-0ubuntu5 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: yelp Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686 + + ***********UPDATE****************** + + It turns out it was my touchpad dying, I think. I am using Jaunty + successfully for everything now having turned it off. + + I got a clue when, having gone back to Intrepid, after about 10 days of + correct mouse usage I started getting random left clicks all over the + place. I guessed it was probably the touchpad, and sure enough when I + turned it off my trackpoint and buttons worked just fine. + + Switching across to Jaunty and turning off the touchpad solved my + problem there, and I'm even confident enough to be using it as the sole + OS. + + It's still odd that there was a difference between the two versions of + Ubuntu, however. I also think I had an inkling that this was going on + before, as when I turned on the computer in either OS it often initially + brought up drag-boxes. That and the fact that I could make other left + click options work temporarily did make me wonder if the trackpad was + acting as if it was holding down left click all the time. I thought I'd + investigated it, but if I did it clearly wasn't very thoroughly. + + Either way, you can probably close this, if anyone is even interested.
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