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The symptoms : I do "something" (haven't quite put my finger on it yet)
that causes the left mouse button to appear stuck down (its like a
MOUSE_DOWN event happened, but never a corresponding MOUSE_UP event).

The stuck mouse button manifest itselfin Intellij IDEA, which basically
becomes unusable.  Many times when this happens, the same behavior is
also present on applications inside the virtual box VMs.

I generally have the following three programs running at all times, so I
think it is triggered by something in them (I have a sneaking suspicious
its using the mousewheel to scroll up / scroll down in the virtualbox
vm).

 - Intellij IDEA
 - Virtual Box (usually running a few windows VMs)
 - Chromium

To solve the problem, I end up having to completely reboot (which kills
a lot of time, because I have to alsy cycle the VMs).

As far as what triggers this problem - it is somewhat hard to determine
but I think it may have something to do with using the mousewheel while
the focus is on one of the virtual box VMs.

One other thing I've noticed is that the problem only seems to happen in
Unity. If I choose Gnome shell then I've not had the issue (but I end up
coming back to Unity since its grown on me).

Other people have also reported the same or similar issue here (I also
posted a description there) :

 http://askubuntu.com/questions/155499/regain-control-of-mouse-by-
restarting-xorg/179571#179571

I am using 12.04 64-bit.

** Affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment
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Left Mouse Button Sometimes Gets Stuck in Unity (12.04)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040844
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