Clicking with mouse not working right in Hardy

[Ari Torhamo]

Mouse clicking has begun to work wrong for me in Hardy. Problems may not start immediately after booting the system, but something soon triggers the wrong behaviour. Here are some symptoms:

Nautilus:
-Clicking or double clicking on a file does nothing.
-Clicking on a file of folder with the right mouse button has the same effect as clicking on the empty space between them.
-A file can be selected by dragging a square around it, but clicking behaviour is still the same as above.
-F2 (for renaming a file) often doesn't work when a file is selected by dragging a square around it.
-Ctrl+C doesn't work.

Upper panel:
-Left clicking on a menu header opens the menu, but it collapses when the button is released. Menu items can be selected though by keeping the mouse button down all the time and moving the cursor onto the desired item. Submenus open when the cursor is kept over them for a moment.
-Left clicking or double clicking on panel shortcuts does nothing. Right clicking on them brings up the context menu, if the mouse button is kept down. When the button is released, the menu disappears.
-An exeption to above are the shortcuts for the deskbar applet, transmission and the clock/calendar, which do work.

Lower panel:
-Left clicking on programs brings them up normally, but right clicking brings up the context menu only if the mouse button is kept down.

Evolution:
-Clicking on a message on the message list opens the message instead of selecting it.

Canorus and KWord (KDE)
-Menus don't open at all (a very short flash can be seen though)

All applications:
-Left clicking on a word selects the word instead of placing the cursor. Double clicking selects the row instead of the word. Buttons on the toolbars do work.

There are similar symptoms in other applications as well.

I checked that mouse is technically OK. I'm pretty sure that the problems started after I installed the updates of 8th of february. Mouse settings in Nautilus and system settings seem normal to me. The mouse is a relatively new Logitech USB mouse.

[Ari Torhamo (ari-torhamo)]

I just re-installed Hardy from a fresh ISO file, and the mouse behaves as its supposed to now. If the problem comes back, I'll try to pay attention to what might have triggered it.

[mikko (mikko-)]

I have standard usb mouse, it worked ok just a couple of hours ago in gutsy. I did a fresh hardy install and right button doesn't work at all now. Left button works very weird too.

My problems are quite same as Ari wrote. Touchpad in my laptop works without problems.

[mikko (mikko-)]

This is same bug as:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/188351

[Ari Torhamo (ari-torhamo)]

188351 may be the same bug. If I would have seen that one, when I searched for an existing report, I might have just left a comment there. It's good to note, though, that the description of 188351 (mouse will only double click) lacks much of the contradicting (with the description) symptoms that I had. Contradicting parts from my report:

Nautilus:
-Clicking or double clicking on a file does nothing.
-Clicking on a file of folder with the right mouse button has the same effect as clicking on the empty space between them.
-F2 (for renaming a file) often doesn't work when a file is selected by dragging a square around it.
-Ctrl+C doesn't work.

Upper panel:
-Left clicking or double clicking on panel shortcuts does nothing.

Lower panel:
-Left clicking on programs brings them up normally, but right clicking brings up the context menu only if the mouse button is kept down. (If the mouse was only double clicking, a left click would leave programs minimized on the panel).

[malaiwah (michel-belleau)]

I had the same problem on my eMachine here with a PS2 mouse.
I will try the "CorePointer" fix proposed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/188351

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

did it help?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!