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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2nd mouse on Dells = erratic window manager behavior?

[Jeff Weston]

No, it's not like the cursor moves on its own or anything; it has more to do with the
mouse buttons when using them to move files,
select objects, move windows, etc.  I've actually I've seen it on a variety of
different Dell machines over the last few years.  I
just always notice it because I tend to use the "nub" mouse (with the trackpad
mouse buttons), while my coworkers tend to favor the
trackpad, which works fine (they always have no idea what I'm talking about until I
show them).

-Jeff

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Sean Madden [mailto:[e-mail]]
>  Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:49 PM
>  To: Jeff Weston
>  Cc: fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com
>  Subject: Re: 2nd mouse on Dells = erratic window manager behavior?
>  
>  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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