Switching users often disables mouse buttons

[Timo Jyrinki]

Binary package hint: xorg

Using a Dell Latitude D600 laptop. Very usually when switching users, the mouse buttons do not work on the new user. It's especially easy to see when "Lock the screen after switching users" has been selected. Switching manually with ctrl-alt-f7/f8/f9 back to the first user, unlocking the screen and switching back resolves the problem.

The problem has been in feisty, but unfortunately also exists in gutsy.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Changing the component to synaptics. As additional information, I cannot reproduce this on a desktop computer. Also now again when I switched the buttons on the touchpad do not work, while an external mouse's buttons work now that I have such also. The cursor moves also with touchpad, but the buttons do not work.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 68370, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can add, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Removed the duplicate status, since this bug apparently still happens (see comments in bug 68370).

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Tracking this still, I myself haven't seen this now after the update that fixed bug 68370, but I didn't encounter it all the time previously, either. If I'll not report back for a few months, this can be considered as fixed.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

I haven't now noticed this problem, though multi-user usage of that laptop has been a bit lower, too. Marking as Fix Released.