Mouse clicks ignored in Wayland sessions (including login screen)

[Enigma]

If I disable Wayland, mouse clicks start working again.

Randomly started occurring sometime after initial install.

Ubuntu 17.10
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ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DisplayManager: gdm3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-27 (102 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Tags: artful third-party-packages
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-041500rc9-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip emby libvirt lpadmin plex plugdev sambashare sudo users video
_MarkForUpload: True

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[Thomas Kregelin (tkr)]

I had the same issue and I disabling the default for Wayland also resolved it for me.

(I had to uncomment the line #WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf.)

Initially after updating from 17.04 to 17.10 I had no troubles. For me this mouse issue appeared some time after (not right away) using ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates for the latest Mesa releases.

By the way, also mouse hovering over an element that would usually focus on hovering over it did not work for me in a Wayland session.

[Enigma (enigma0)]

GSettingsChanges:

org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions ['temperature@xtranophilist', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', 'audio-output-switcher@anduchs', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', 'freon@UshakovVasilii_Github.yahoo.com', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>']
org.gnome.shell command-history ['r']
org.gnome.shell remember-mount-password true
org.gnome.shell had-bluetooth-devices-setup true
org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme 'whiteglass'
org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-seconds true
org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-im-module 'gtk-im-context-simple'
org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'Adwaita'
org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-format '12h'
org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Arc-Dark'
org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-date true
org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name 'Ubuntu 10'

[Enigma (enigma0)]

@tkr

Same fix for me but I am using: https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers

Hovering also was ignored for me.

[Thomas Kregelin (tkr)]

@enigma0

Oh boy, when I read your reply it somehow rang a bell ...

At home I checked what actual PPA I am using for the newest Mesa packages - and it turns out I too use https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers

I mixed that up ...

PS: I got the fix from your hint in your post: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1730174/comments/13

Thanks for that - that made my day.

[Enigma (enigma0)]

@tkr Np - it really smoothed things over for me too.

In terms of oibaf PPA, I am also pretty sure that mouse stuff was working for quite a while after initially setting up the PPA.

[centx (centx)]

I also got this issue on 17.10 after installing linux kernel 4.15.1 (amd64, lot-latency) from Ubuntu kernel-ppa[1] and Vesa components from Padoka PPA[2] to get better support for my Vega 56 GPU

[1]: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.15.1/
[2]: https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

There is a whole family of similar bugs in gnome-shell. I have grouped them under the tag 'noclick', for anyone interested:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bugs?field.tag=noclick

[Calin (calinuswork)]

The problem with oibaf is that sometimes X won't start, and I have to purge them.

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