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xserver-xorg-input-evdev package

  1. Bug #365300
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 365300

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Ethan Baldridge (ethan-superiordocumentservices) wrote : Re: Randomly I get double clicks when I do a single click.

Running Karmic (alpha 4) - mine has been exhibiting this behaviour for a little while but I thought it was user error or timing issues, but it got MUCH worse today (probably in conjunction with the patch that Herbert mentioned above). The computer is pretty much unusable now. I'm lucky if I can type a sudo command AND my password before the cursor is hijacked by the left mouse button being "held down". The only way to regain control is to right click and open a new terminal tab (using the right mouse button on the menu, since the left button is only responsive to the ghost events).

To top it off, when I was trying to troubleshoot I found that VT1-6 don't work anymore, apparently, but that's a separate bug report.

cat /dev/input/mice and don't touch anything, and you will see the cursor in the terminal move back and forth as it receives ghostly click events.

Please tell me you guys have some idea what the problem is!