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  • Mouse weirdness

    From Van Snyder@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 8 02:10:01 2025
    I have two mice: One is wireless, the other USB, both Logitech.

    Suddenly today, the buttons started deciding on their own what they
    meant. For example, the left button in the center of a Firefox tab
    closed the tab instead of "topping" it. The scroll wheel magnifies or
    shrinks instead of scrolling. Then if I use the other mouse, the
    correct behavior is restored.

    This is entirely new — never happened before today.

    I thought this was only a Firefox thing so I restarted it, but that
    didn't help. Then I reinstalled it, and that didn't help. I cleared all
    my history and caches and that didn't help. Then I noticed it in Okular
    and Evolution.

    I haven't rebooted.

    I'm using Debian 12 Bookworm. My kernel is 6.1.0-34-amd64.

    Is this a Debian thing, or a KDE thing, or a Wayland vs X thing? I
    don't know how to tell whether I'm using Wayland or X at the moment.


    <html><head></head><body><div>I have two mice: One is wireless, the other USB, both Logitech.</div><div><br></div><div>Suddenly today, the buttons started deciding on their own what they meant. For example, the left button in the center of a Firefox tab
    closed the tab instead of "topping" it. The scroll wheel magnifies or shrinks instead of scrolling. Then if I use the other mouse, the correct behavior is restored.</div><div><br></div><div>This is entirely new — never happened before today.</div><div><
    </div><div>I thought this was only a Firefox thing so I restarted it, but that didn't help. Then I reinstalled it, and that didn't help. I cleared all my history and caches and that didn't help. Then I noticed it in Okular and Evolution.</div><div><br>
    </div><div>I haven't rebooted.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm using Debian 12 Bookworm. My kernel is 6.1.0-34-amd64.</div><div><br></div><div>Is this a Debian thing, or a KDE thing, or a Wayland vs X thing? I don't know how to tell whether I'm using
    Wayland or X at the moment.</div><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></body></html>

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu May 8 15:40:02 2025
    On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:27:54AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:

    [...]

    So, iiuc, one mouse works properly, and the other does not. My first suspect
    would be the mouse hardware.

    If the problem mouse is the wireless one, I'd also suspect the driver for the
    wireless mouse.

    Or the battery. Or the neighbour's microwave oven ;-)

    Cheers
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    t

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  • From gene heskett@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu May 8 18:50:01 2025
    On 5/8/25 09:33, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:27:54AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:

    [...]

    So, iiuc, one mouse works properly, and the other does not. My first suspect
    would be the mouse hardware.

    If the problem mouse is the wireless one, I'd also suspect the driver for the
    wireless mouse.
    Or the battery. Or the neighbour's microwave oven ;-)

    The latter however would demonstrate only when the oven is actually in use.

    One would be amazed at the leakage of a microwave oven door with worn
    hinges has.

    We as broadcasters are required to survey our transmitters for leakage
    at license renewal times, checking for leakage high enough to sense
    warmth, but with a calibrated instrument.  Several ovens have been
    detected that far exceeded the leakage stds in our lunch rooms.  Any
    engineer worth his paycheck checks his lunchroom microwave while
    checking his transmitters.  BTDT.  A common 29 dollar ir thermometer
    like I use for cooking food will also go nuts in the presence of such
    leakage.


    Cheers

    Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
    --
    "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
    soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
    -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
    If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
    - Louis D. Brandeis

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  • From Roy J. Tellason, Sr.@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 8 22:00:01 2025
    On Thursday 08 May 2025 12:42:38 pm gene heskett wrote:

    On 5/8/25 09:33, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:27:54AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:

    [...]

    So, iiuc, one mouse works properly, and the other does not. My first suspect
    would be the mouse hardware.

    If the problem mouse is the wireless one, I'd also suspect the driver for the
    wireless mouse.
    Or the battery. Or the neighbour's microwave oven ;-)

    The latter however would demonstrate only when the oven is actually in use.

    One would be amazed at the leakage of a microwave oven door with worn
    hinges has.

    We as broadcasters are required to survey our transmitters for leakage
    at license renewal times, checking for leakage high enough to sense
    warmth, but with a calibrated instrument.  Several ovens have been
    detected that far exceeded the leakage stds in our lunch rooms.  Any engineer worth his paycheck checks his lunchroom microwave while
    checking his transmitters.  BTDT.  A common 29 dollar ir thermometer
    like I use for cooking food will also go nuts in the presence of such leakage.


    Cheers

    Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

    If I happen to be sitting in the kitchen here when the microwave is in use, and I happen to be doing stuff on my phone that interacts with my hearing aids by way of bluetooth, the leakage from the microwave stomps on the bluetooth signal pretty good,
    much of the time...

    --
    Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
    ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
    be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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    Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin

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