lost mouse events

[Matthew Woehlke]

Kishore wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 Jul 2008 2:20:00 am Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> I haven't figured out the cause of this, but it occurred to me just
>> recently that it might be kwin-related... I have this problem where
>> periodically (i.e. "usually several times per day") my desktop (KDE
>> trunk) stops responding to mouse events. The cursor still moves, the
>> machine otherwise works normally, but all mouse clicks are apparently
>> sent to /dev/null.
>>
>> The darndest thing is, if I fire up KVM (Win XP guest), let it boot, and
>> do an OS shutdown, the mouse works again. (SDL grab+release doesn't fix
>> it, starting KVM and shutting it down doesn't... it has to go through
>> booting XP and shutting down XP, and when kvm goes away it works again.)
>> But it isn't a kvm problem because it can break when kvm isn't running.
>>
>> xidump shows that the mouse events are getting into X.
>>
>> Any thoughts? Any guesses what to blame, or how to debug?
> 
> I remember facing such a problem a couple of months ago. My only way out 
> seemed to be logout:logback. I was told it was a bug in kded which was later 
> fixed.

Hmm... could be, but I'm running somewhat recent kded (I don't log out 
frequently ;-), so kded is a bit older).

Bloody heck, and it just happened again while typing this :-(.

So did you have the exact same symptoms (can move cursor but clicking 
doesn't do anything)?

-- 
Matthew
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