[SOLVED] Frustrating mouse behaviour

Hey guys
I'm having a problem with my mouse interactions on my desktop. I'm running 64-bit arch with Openbox, tint2, cairo-compmgr, gmrun and conky.
I can consistently reproduce the following problem:
Fire up Chromium, and open two tabs with web pages. Click on one of the tabs (to switch tabs), and move the mouse down into the body of the webpage. The cursor no longer responds to changes in the context (ie it never switches from cursor to hand for links, or the text selection tool for text), and left-clicking or middle-clicking is totally fruitless (ie nothing happens). If I use the scroll wheel in this state, then chromium scrolls through the list of available tabs instead of the web page (remember, my cursor is off the tab bar and in the page at this time) To get "back" my cursor, I have to right-click somewhere in the web page and then cursor control resumes as normal.
Other programs show even worse behaviour, for example tintwizard. If I try to select the font for tint2 (using the wizard), I can't use the mouse to interact with the font dialog (separate window) at all - I have to use the escape key to cancel the dialog.
The programs listed aren't the only ones showing problems, they're just the ones I can report a consistent problem for. Others are so frustrating I can't even begin to describe what's going on (aside from "my mouse is driving me insane")
This problem was vexing me on my previous setup (fluxbox), which is why I "burned down" my system (complete uninstall of X11 and all graphical systems) and then rebuilt it, but the problem has followed me apparently.
I've checked over my Xorg.0.log file and there's no errors or warnings related to my mouse or input devices. My mouse for fluxbox was an MX1000, I'm now using a Saitek RAT7 for openbox and the problem is persisting, so I think this isn't a hardware issue.
Could someone help me out with this one? Without any error messages or leads to follow up on, I think my only way out at this time might be a complete reinstall of my OS.
Woogie
Last edited by woogie (2010-10-26 00:05:40)

Weird problem. Some ideas:
- Did it start after some update or change? if so use the pacman logs to determine which update was the culprit and downgrade it
- Do you use any custom xorg settings, or some custom HAL policies in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ (depreciated btw)? Try setting it all to default
- Comb through the other logs with my error combing script
- Perhaps helping in isolating the problem is the 'xev' commandline app. With this you can check if (and which) keyboard/mouse events are are registered.
- Does it also occur with a fresh home folder, I.e. is it caused by some setting in your homefolder?
Last edited by rwd (2010-10-25 20:16:48)

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