Mouse Freeze Edgy Switch User

[Ian M. Donahoe]

Mouse freezes in Edgy when I try to switch user.

[keweerts (keithubuntu)]

I can confirm the same behavior. I am using a Dell Inspiron 6000 with touch pad.

[Fred (fredrooks)]

I have the same problem. When I press `Switch User' in the `System --> Quit' dialog, the mouse pointer is found frozen in the center of the GDM screen, and remains there even after I log in as another user. Switching to the first user with `CTRL+ALT+F_' and back makes the mouse work again. I have a Logitech RX300 mouse and the following in xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Configured Mouse"
        Option "Name" "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
        Option "Buttons" "7"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

[Fred (fredrooks)]

Oh, I forgot to mention that I am running Feisty.

[Markus Kienast (elias1884)]

I can confirm this problem!

I have a synaptic touchpad with the feisty standard xorg.conf (nvidia enabled).

Very annoying.

By the way, I would find it nice, if in Feisty+1 I could have the login screen for another user on a side of the desktop cube. I find this Alt+Ctrl+F* very annoying and not really worthy to be named FAST user switching, as it keeps my screen black for just too long. This is not a bug, but the normal behavior ever since!

I believe X should somehow be started just once as user xorg. All other sessions access this instance. Whatever happens currently when you do Ctrl+Alt+F* seems to be the wrong thing, as it does not provide a seamless user experience and should therefore be abandoned some time soon. User session switching should be as smooth as switching my workspace with the workspace applet!

[Fred (fredrooks)]

I've solved this problem in my Feisty Fawn by replacing `Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"' with "Option `"CorePointer"' in the mouse-related InputDevice section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

[ramaDan (ryagmur)]

Also in feisty i had the same problem with my synaptics
it was not working for second user wants to login. (with switch user)
i solved with adding

on Section "ServerLayout"
on line InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
i added "SendCoreEvents"

now it is like
        InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
and works.

[ramaDan (ryagmur)]

now do not work again!