#WIRED MOUSE RIGHT CLICK NOT WORKING MAC UPDATE#

Suspected my wireless mouse, but had the same effects with a regular wired mouse: left mouse button would work on and off.

#WIRED MOUSE RIGHT CLICK NOT WORKING MAC UPDATE#

I don't know if this will be a permanent solution or if it will start giving me problems again, but I thought I'd mention this solution.ĭid not have any mouse issues until a recent update manager update. So, after disabling Visual Effects (System>Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects then select None), the mouse is suddenly working again. After playing around with Ubuntu Tweak, one of the menu options, 'Enable Metacity's compositing feature', mentioned that I had to manually disable visual effects in appearance. So, based on that, I was pretty certain that Compiz was the root of my mouse issues. So, then I realized that in all likelihood, this is a problem with 10.04.Īfter looking around online for some time trying to come across a solution that worked for me, I stumbled across the post above about using metacity -replace. However, after using the wired mouse for a few days, I started to notice that it was having the exact same problem. In the end, I essentially gimped up this mouse trying to make it work, but to no avail.įinally, I stopped using the mouse completely, and switched to a wired trackball that had never previously given me any problems before. I focused my efforts on trying to fix the mouse. I assumed the problem was with the mouse, even though I've only had it since June or July this year (2010). This problem affected all programs and windows. In short, life with this mouse became unbearable. I could almost never manage to highlight text. Dragging and dropping and copy and paste became almost impossible. Clicking would sometimes register as a left click, sometimes register as a double click, and many, many times it would fail to register at all. Sometimes it would be severe, sometimes barely noticeable. My issue was that the left button on my Logitech wireless trackball mouse would give me lots of problems. BTW, I'm using a wireless Logitech trackball on Ubuntu 10.04. I've had, perhaps a similar issue, thought I would chime in on what I did that seems to have worked.

Just wanted to share this with you since the 'input' of my mouse now seems to once again, be completely and fully 'attached' to my computer. What the file re-installation cleared up, was the need to click several times to open up a folder, having to hold the button down for sometimes as long as three or four seconds before the click would be activated, or having to right click to open a folder or open a file with a particular application.

I'm a relatively new Ubuntu user, but instead of asking a lot of questions and then waiting for someone to reply, I decided to try and do something about it on my own, and solved my mouse problems (computer mouse, that is. It's so nice to have a mouse that behaves itself and works like it should, again. Works like it did on the day I installed 10.04. Reinstalled it and my mouse problems are solved. Finally, I searched for 'input' and found a file called, 'inputattach'. Then I searched for 'keyboard' and did the same thing. After that, I clicked on all the already installed applications (there aren't that many) and reinstalled all of 'em. For what it's worth, I went into the package manager and searched for, 'mouse'.

Wired mouse right click not working mac