[opensuse-xfce] Strange WM disease: mouse partially dead
Since approx. 2 weeks my desktop (xfce on openSUSE 12.2 with all updates) behaves strange: the mouse no longer works reliably. I'm not aware of X configuartion changes that I may have made at that time. If it happens, moving the mouse pointer with the mouse still work, but click events no longer reach the application: If I click an inactive tab in FF, it does not activate that tab; clicking any ok button also fails (no matter whether that's in a gtk or qt application); and 'xev' does not seem to see an event. Often the Alt-Tab keycombo to switch between applications is also defunct. Often I can trigger this behavior, if I dupple-click a word for selection in my xterm. As a temporary workaround it mostly helps to switch to a different virtual desktop with Control-Alt-Rightarrow and immediately come back with C-A-Leftarrow. Or I must enter 'xfwm4 --replace &'... /usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard 30: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.319] Unique ID: VCu0.PF06ujSHk03 Parent ID: vSkL.e5RgtFs5f74 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "nVidia GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x0161 "GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)" SubVendor: pci 0x1462 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." SubDevice: pci 0x0271 Revision: 0xa1 Driver: "nouveau" Driver Modules: "drm" Memory Range: 0xd1000000-0xd1ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd0ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (131960 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000161sv00001462sd00000271bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nvidia 3D Support: yes Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #9 (PCI bridge) Primary display adapter: #30 -- Karl Eichwalder SUSE LINUX Products GmbH R&D / Documentation Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
* Karl Eichwalder
Since approx. 2 weeks my desktop (xfce on openSUSE 12.2 with all updates) behaves strange: the mouse no longer works reliably. I'm not aware of X configuartion changes that I may have made at that time.
If it happens, moving the mouse pointer with the mouse still work, but click events no longer reach the application: If I click an inactive tab in FF, it does not activate that tab; clicking any ok button also fails (no matter whether that's in a gtk or qt application); and 'xev' does not seem to see an event. Often the Alt-Tab keycombo to switch between applications is also defunct.
Often I can trigger this behavior, if I dupple-click a word for selection in my xterm.
As a temporary workaround it mostly helps to switch to a different virtual desktop with Control-Alt-Rightarrow and immediately come back with C-A-Leftarrow. Or I must enter 'xfwm4 --replace &'...
Can you still do right and middle clicks? I've seen a similar problem where only left clicks seem to be blocked but only very rarely and since it wasn't easily reproducible and doesn't happen on my main box I never bothered to investigate further. In any case, would you mind reporting this upstream at https://bugzilla.xfce.org/ against xfwm4? Thanks, -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
Guido Berhoerster
As a temporary workaround it mostly helps to switch to a different virtual desktop with Control-Alt-Rightarrow and immediately come back with C-A-Leftarrow. Or I must enter 'xfwm4 --replace &'...
Can you still do right and middle clicks? I've seen a similar problem where only left clicks seem to be blocked but only very rarely and since it wasn't easily reproducible and doesn't happen on my main box I never bothered to investigate further. In any case, would you mind reporting this upstream at https://bugzilla.xfce.org/ against xfwm4?
Thanks for your help! ATM, I'm no longer to reproduce the issue--hopefully a good sign. If it occurs again, I'll report it upstream. And a Happy New Year! -- Karl Eichwalder SUSE LINUX Products GmbH R&D / Documentation Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
Guido Berhoerster
Can you still do right and middle clicks? I've seen a similar problem where only left clicks seem to be blocked but only very rarely and since it wasn't easily reproducible and doesn't happen on my main box I never bothered to investigate further. In any case, would you mind reporting this upstream at https://bugzilla.xfce.org/ against xfwm4?
Now entered as https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9714 with the additional info: Right and middle clicks are also dead. If I click something in emacs, I see on the console: (emacs:3783): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_events: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed (emacs:3783): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (emacs:3783): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed -- Karl Eichwalder SUSE LINUX Products GmbH R&D / Documentation Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
* Karl Eichwalder
Guido Berhoerster
writes: Can you still do right and middle clicks? I've seen a similar problem where only left clicks seem to be blocked but only very rarely and since it wasn't easily reproducible and doesn't happen on my main box I never bothered to investigate further. In any case, would you mind reporting this upstream at https://bugzilla.xfce.org/ against xfwm4?
Now entered as https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9714 with the additional info:
Thanks.
Right and middle clicks are also dead.
If I click something in emacs, I see on the console:
(emacs:3783): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_events: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed (emacs:3783): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (emacs:3783): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
That seems to be different from the problem I've seen. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
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