[Hardy] ThinkPad mouse buttons do not work in Xfce

[Robert]

I am using Xfce on my ThinkPad Z60m (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:Z60m). This model has two sets of mouse buttons: two below the touchpad, and three above the touchpad (meant to be used with the stick control in the middle of hte keyboard).

The set of three buttons above the touchpad do not work when I first boot the computer. After some delay (I'm unsure if it's due to using certain applications or just a matter of waiting some amount of time), they do work.

In previous versions of Ubuntu or Debian, I've never had this problem before.

FYI, I've done a "fresh" install of XUbuntu from the Live CD (reusing a home directory from a bad upgrade to Hardy).

[Matthew Caron (matt-mattcaron)]

I have a similar issue. Thinkpad T60p, except my upper mouse buttons never start to work.

[Matthew Caron (matt-mattcaron)]

Update - the upper mouse buttons were not working because I had disable the trackpoint (eraserhead). Enabling it has those 3 buttons work. It seems like they start to work after one of the buttons is hit, like this forces an autodetection or something.

[Robert (robrwo)]

It takes longer before they start to work on mine.

[Matthew Caron (matt-mattcaron)]

In 8.10, the buttons seem instantly available. This is resolved for me.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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!.