Wow. This just started happening to me today and I almost threw my mouse out of the window.
I've been running 16.04 LTS for a long time and i've had some issues with ibus and PHPStorm but this is something completely new that started happening out of the blue today. Can confirm that switching to TTY and back helps (CTRL + ALT + F1 / CTRL+ ALT + F7) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316873 Title: Left mouse button stops working To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1316873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs