Re: 2nd mouse on Dells = erratic window manager behavior?

[Sean Madden]

Since you've seen this problem since Fedora 8, I can assume that you've had
this laptop for a while.

I work in IT for a major college, and we see issues like this on a number of
laptops with the track nub mouse, both on Windows XP and Fedora*.  Cleaning
out the nub mouse usually helps the situation, but I don't believe it to be
a software issue as it spans two OSs.

-Sean

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Jeff Weston
<Jeffery.Weston(a)nrl.navy.mil&gt;wrote:

>  Since about Fedora 8, and definitely in Fedora 9 and 10, there has
> been a
>  problem
>  with the window manager on Dell Latitude laptops with two mouse inputs
>  (touch
>  pad and joystick-style).  Occasionally, it will do very strange things when
>  you
>  use the joystick-style mouse (the touchpad works perfectly though) ...
>  maximize
>  windows while you're moving them, double-click files you're trying to move,
>  leave selections on the desktop that can't be removed via a refresh, and
>  once
>  in a while, it will actually lock X up hard, requiring the old
>  Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.  This behavior may be more common when using the
>  joystick
>  Mouse with the touchpad's buttons, but I'm not sure.
>
>  Sorry if this is a dupe, I didn't know exactly what to search for.  And
>  like I
>  said, it's been there a while, though I realize that a laptop with two
>  built-in
>  mouse interfaces is somewhat uncommon...
>
>  Also submitted as Bugzilla bug #488836, with no acknowledgement in 6
>  weeks...
>
>  Thanks,
>  -Jeff Weston
>
>
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