mouse button to switch workspace stopped working

[Redmar]

I have a mouse with many buttons, so I use a bunch of them to switch between different viewports. However, they suddenly stopped working a few days ago. It looks like the mouse events are no longer captured by compiz but are just sent to the current window (tested with xev | grep button)

This problem also occurs for a brand new user, so it's not a problem with my compiz profile.

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help resolve this, its really anoying!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140408-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-23.45-generic 3.13.8
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Apr 10 14:12:18 2014
DistUpgraded: 2013-12-22 00:13:31,626 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 ndiswrapper, 1.59, 3.13.0-20-generic, i686: installed
 ndiswrapper, 1.59, 3.13.0-23-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox, 4.3.10, 3.13.0-20-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox, 4.3.10, 3.13.0-23-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Redwood XT [Radeon HD 5670/5690/5730] [1002:68d8] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:21ff]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-04 (249 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130424)
MachineType: Acer Aspire M5500
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-23-generic root=UUID=10982603-61db-48f7-b8df-bfad739001ca ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-12-21 (109 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/18/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: R01-B0
dmi.board.name: FG965M
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvrR01-B0:bd06/18/2007:svnAcer:pnAspireM5500:pvrR01-B0:rvnAcer:rnFG965M:rvr:cvnAcer:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Aspire M5500
dmi.product.version: R01-B0
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140408-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.0-4ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.0-4ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.0-1ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Thu Apr 10 11:52:10 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.devices:
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 7
 input Logitech USB Receiver MOUSE, id 8
 input Logitech USB Receiver KEYBOARD, id 9
 input AT Translated Set 2 keyboard KEYBOARD, id 10
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.15.0-1ubuntu7
xserver.video_driver: radeon

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

I suspect this is a duplicate of #1304877 which was fixed in 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1. If that's the case, updating to the latest packages should restore the functionality.

Please try that and let us know if it fixes your problem.

[Johfra Kamphuis (johfra)]

Same problem.
Compiz package 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1 is installed.