Cannot click on anything

[Max Brustkern]

When I start a unity 7 session in utopic, the system switches to my previously defined configuration for external monitors, then stops accepting input. I can move the mouse across both displays, but I cannot click on anything, and keyboard shortcuts don't seem to bring up anything either. Sometimes the cursor changes to the hand or the arrow for resizing a window, and sometimes if I click I get the spinning cursor.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: unity 7.3.1+14.10.20140811-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-10.15-generic 3.16.1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.6-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Aug 26 15:31:02 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-31 (452 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: unity
SystemImageInfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'system-image-cli'
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-02-18 (189 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Aleksander Blomskøld (aleksabl)]

Same happened with me after upgrade to 14.10. I've tried this (with no success):

 * Logging in as a guest user
 * Uninstalling nvidia driver (using noveau instead).
 * Using GDM instead of lightdm

[Max Brustkern (nuclearbob)]

I tried using xfce, and that worked, but crashed a lot. I created a
different user, and that seems to work. Removing most of my .files in the
home directory on my original user didn't seem to help.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

Can you tell me if this is still happening?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]