On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:57:48AM -0800, John Ettedgui wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I have had a small issue for some time with my mouse and need some help :) >> >> Basically sometimes, something bad happens (what?) and then the mouse >> keeps the focus on one application. >> For example if I am in Firefox and the mouse works there, I cannot >> click on anything in the task bar, or even if I alt-tab to konsole the >> mouse will not work there. If I right click in the console, it will >> behave the same way as if I was right clicking in Firefox. >> One "temp fix" is to right click in the application, then right click >> in the systray on the same application then I can click on another >> application and so on... >> This issue is usually fixed by reinstall Xorg's evdev and then restarting >> Xorg. > > this is almost certainly a stuck grab. If FF has an active grab, no other > application can receive pointer events for the duration of the grab. > You don't actually need to reinstall, usually restarting X is enough. In > fact, making the FF window unviewable will break the grab too (e.g. > minimising it) > > This may be an application issue or an issue with the server. To figure out > what exactly happens, we'd need a reproducible test case - stuck grabs are > notoriously tricky to debug. > > Cheers, > Peter > Hello Peter,
in the past I believe just restarting Xorg was not enough, but I'll try that again next time and see. What do you mean by reproducible? Since this *seems* random it is quite hard for me to offer any repro. Thank you, John _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
