Mouse button stops working?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:53 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> > I had something similar once - my left button was actually acting as if
> > ctrl was held down permanently, it was drag-selecting text in Evolution
> > when I moved it, and clicking did nothing in any app. Reboot fixed it,
> > haven't seen it again since.
> 
> I've posted about something slightly similar many weeks ago (with F13
> and F12) with nobody commenting on it. With a combination of at least
> Emacs, Firefox, xterm and tvtime running, all of a sudden something
> activates the Shift key, and it affects everything I can enter (in the
> open apps *and* newly started ones) via the keyboard and the mouse.
> Pressing Shift or Shift-lock is no cure, but at least makes it possible
> to type in lower-case characters again. ;) Logging out of GNOME and back
> in is a quick fix.

Obviously I meant shift indeed, but this wasn't the same; it didn't
affect the keyboard, that worked as usual. Only the mouse behaviour was
affected, for me.
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