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[Jan-Philip Gehrcke <jgehrcke@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse

Hello!

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 guest OS + Vmware Tools on WinXP host. xserver-
xorg-input-vmmouse helps me getting a seamless mouse between guest and
host, but there is an annoying issue:

Whenever I press the left or the right mouse button, another "left-
click-event" is sent instantly after release of the button.

In the terminal this results in:
normal leftclick -> marks a whole line
normal rightclick -> opens context menu and instantly executed first entry ("open terminal")
press left button, wait -> mark some characters, stay over them... release -> marked characters are in clipboard
press right button, wait -> context menu opens, move around and stay over an arbitrary entry... release -> this entry is executed

In general, it's clear that it's not easy to work with this strange
behaviour :-)

Maybe it's even an additional "left-click-event"  after each click-
event, e.g. after clicking the middle mouse button, too. But I don't
know how to test this.

The problem spontaneously appears as "single click taken as double click", and I found another person who experienced it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse/+bug/248521/comments/54
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse/+bug/248521/comments/58

But, in contrast to him, I had no success by modifying my xorg.conf. I
even deleted all Input Devices but it did not help. To get the desired
mouse behaviour back, I had to remove xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse. But
this is not what I want :-)

I almost have no idea how do debug such input device related stuff.
Please request logs/infos you need! I will deliver them asap.

Jan-Philip Gehrcke

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse 1:12.5.1-4ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

** Affects: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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always additional "left-click-event" after left- or right-click
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395153
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