thanatoast
November 17th, 2009, 04:23 AM
Hello,
I am having some strange problems with Karmic, using Gnome.
I open gedit and start typing. I the move the mouse up and click on the File menu and get the file menu (as expected). I then click back on the text area. I am no longer able to click on the File menu. Clicking on the File mene moves the text pointer to the top line in the text area. If I right click on File (or anyplace else on the desktop), I get the editor menu (Undo/Redo/Cut/Copy/Paste/etc) as if the mouse pointer is still over the text area.
Another similar behavior: I left click on gedit on taskbar to minimize it, click it again to restore it. Then right click in the text area of gedit. It behaves exactly as if I had right clicked on gedit on the task bar and shows that menu (Minimize/Maximize/etc). Clicking in the text area makes that menu go away and right clicking again behaves as it should. This behavior is similar in other programs I have tried. Hoovering over taskbar items (and buttons in firefox) gives some odd results at times as well. Gnome seems to know that I am hoovering, but shows text content from a firefox page I no longer have open (I think that's what it was showing). Sometimes the mouse clicking seems to have completely stopped. If I press Alt-F for the file menu, or some other menu, the appropriate menu opens and mouse clicking begins working again in that program. Also, the scroll wheel acts in a similar manner at times. If I place the mouse over a gedit program and use the scroll wheel it will scroll another window behind it. Left clicking in gedit (when this happens) changes the focus to the window that was behind gedit. Similar to the above, if I click on an item in the taskbar, then move the mouse up to an item on the desktop and use the scroll wheel it acts as if the mouse is hoovering over the taskbar still and scrolls through open programs. (I also just discovered that when it is doing this, Alt-Tab does not work either.)
Additionally, I pre-wrote this message using gedit (while I experimented with the mouse). I noticed that when things were "not right" the text cursor would sometimes vanish mostly while moving the pointer back and forth using the arrow keys) and typing would not always work when the cursor was gone. Once just after I right clicked in gedit to make the cursor come back the screen turned black (the screen-saver, I assume) and returned to normal immediately when I moved the mouse.
If it matters, this is a new install on a Dell Optiplex GX150. The mouse is a TrackMan Marble+ (ps/2). I do not have visual efects turned on. I do not have an xorg.conf file.
I am hoping to take this machine offline by the end of the week. I have a hard enough time convincing the people I will share it with that Linux is the way to go, without having to explain that they need to right click a few times to be able to left click on something. Should I just find a different distro, or is someone actually trying to fix this?
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
I am having some strange problems with Karmic, using Gnome.
I open gedit and start typing. I the move the mouse up and click on the File menu and get the file menu (as expected). I then click back on the text area. I am no longer able to click on the File menu. Clicking on the File mene moves the text pointer to the top line in the text area. If I right click on File (or anyplace else on the desktop), I get the editor menu (Undo/Redo/Cut/Copy/Paste/etc) as if the mouse pointer is still over the text area.
Another similar behavior: I left click on gedit on taskbar to minimize it, click it again to restore it. Then right click in the text area of gedit. It behaves exactly as if I had right clicked on gedit on the task bar and shows that menu (Minimize/Maximize/etc). Clicking in the text area makes that menu go away and right clicking again behaves as it should. This behavior is similar in other programs I have tried. Hoovering over taskbar items (and buttons in firefox) gives some odd results at times as well. Gnome seems to know that I am hoovering, but shows text content from a firefox page I no longer have open (I think that's what it was showing). Sometimes the mouse clicking seems to have completely stopped. If I press Alt-F for the file menu, or some other menu, the appropriate menu opens and mouse clicking begins working again in that program. Also, the scroll wheel acts in a similar manner at times. If I place the mouse over a gedit program and use the scroll wheel it will scroll another window behind it. Left clicking in gedit (when this happens) changes the focus to the window that was behind gedit. Similar to the above, if I click on an item in the taskbar, then move the mouse up to an item on the desktop and use the scroll wheel it acts as if the mouse is hoovering over the taskbar still and scrolls through open programs. (I also just discovered that when it is doing this, Alt-Tab does not work either.)
Additionally, I pre-wrote this message using gedit (while I experimented with the mouse). I noticed that when things were "not right" the text cursor would sometimes vanish mostly while moving the pointer back and forth using the arrow keys) and typing would not always work when the cursor was gone. Once just after I right clicked in gedit to make the cursor come back the screen turned black (the screen-saver, I assume) and returned to normal immediately when I moved the mouse.
If it matters, this is a new install on a Dell Optiplex GX150. The mouse is a TrackMan Marble+ (ps/2). I do not have visual efects turned on. I do not have an xorg.conf file.
I am hoping to take this machine offline by the end of the week. I have a hard enough time convincing the people I will share it with that Linux is the way to go, without having to explain that they need to right click a few times to be able to left click on something. Should I just find a different distro, or is someone actually trying to fix this?
Thank you for taking the time to read this.