No laptop, no touchpad for me. I've got a standard USB mouse on a
desktop. For me the bug happened as I was toggling mplayer fullscreen
and back. I've done that many times since and the bug hasn't come up
again.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Alba Pompeo <albapompeo_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> After searching for a long time, I think I found the bug report about
> this issue.
> It's really either a libinput or xorg bug.
> Are you using a laptop with touchpad by any chance?
> Blacklisting the touchpad input seems to have fixed it for me, but
> it's still too soon to be sure. You should give it a try and report
> back.
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26213#c22
> Let me know if that works for you.
> And now I'm even more prompt to jump ship and install Wayland. Xorg is
> a pain in the ass.
>
> Ciao.
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Andrew Fuller <abf_AT_google.com> wrote:
>> I ran into the same issue about a week ago, using i3wm+st. Exactly the
>> same symptoms as you described, and it's the first time it's ever
>> happened to me. Unfortunately I "fixed" it by unplugging/replugging my
>> house and I don't know how to reproduce it. But I haven't restarted
>> any software or rebooted since then, so the problem should still exist
>> on my setup. Let me know if I can help you track this down.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Alba Pompeo <albapompeo_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dears,
>>>
>>> I have a weird bug and I'm not sure how to find the culprit.
>>> I'm using dwm and from time to time my mouse pointer gets locked.
>>> Highlighting text on st doesn't work, right-clicking on firefox
>>> doesn't work, left-click dragging on pdf-reader doesn't work, slock
>>> errors, windows don't get focused and other clumsy things. When I
>>> restart X the problem is solved, but it soon happens again.
>>> I'm very lost as what's the cause of this.
>>> I tried logging dwm's stderr, but found nothing relevant there.
>>> The only clue I have is that when I try to run slock while the bug is
>>> happening, I get this message --- slock: unable to grab mouse pointer
>>> for screen 0
>>> Who could be the culprit here? dwm? xorg? driver?
>>> Can anyone think of a way to debug this?
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>> Ciao.
>>>
>>
>
Received on Mon Apr 25 2016 - 23:54:20 CEST