Comment 29 for bug 296167

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In , Zaai (zaai) wrote :

Anywhere between a few minutes and a few hours, the mouse buttons stop responding. The mouse itself keeps moving and remains visible.

The trigger is when moving the mouse between two xinerama screens.
No messages about this are logged in Xorg.0.log, messages, or any other log file.
In this state xev does not see any mouse events.

When X is restarted the mouse buttons are recognized again.
Another recovery is running a synergy server locally and connecting to it with the client. Note that this only works when running synergyc from the konsole in one of the xinerama screens. Doing the exact same thing in the other screen has no effect.

OS: Gentoo
xorg-7.4; xorg-server-1.5.2

The bug was first reported by Eric Stein. See also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243496 for more details.