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[The Fiddler <636311@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am experiencing the same issue on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li1818 laptop
and the internal touchpad. This doesn't seem to be limited to Microsoft
keyboards.

2010/10/15 Evžen Šubrt <636311@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I am experiencing the same problem on CHICONY WUR-0570TR wireless
> keyboard+mouse set.
>
> --
> Keyboard special keys interfere with mouse
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636311
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> of a duplicate bug (658122).
>
> Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: New
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “xserver-xorg-input-evdev” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Maverick: New
> Status in “xserver-xorg-input-evdev” source package in Maverick: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xorg
>
> Following an online update from Kubuntu Lucid to Maverick beta, use of
> almost any of the 'special' buttons on the keyboard (mail, home, documents,
> play/pause, volume up, zoom in...) fires a ButtonPress event (as seen by
> xev) for the physically left mouse button (i.e. left click with the mouse
> set right-handed, 'right click' if set left-handed). There is no
> corresponding ButtonRelease, so the computer acts as if that mouse button is
> held down. The ButtonPress occurs between the KeyPress and KeyRelease events
> of the special key.
>
> This makes the mouse essentially unusable. So far, I've not found a way to
> reset it besides logging off (i.e. restarting X).
>
> Hardware:
> - Basic Microsoft keyboard and mouse (optical wheel mouse, Digital Media
> Keyboard 3000)
> - Intel graphics (lspci says it's an 82G33/31 integrated graphics
> controller)
>
> Initially I thought the problem was related to kwin compositing (which also
> causes some problems, see bug 630632 ), but I've found it happening even
> with desktop effects turned off.
>
> I don't know if xorg is the best package to file this against, so if not,
> please point me in the right direction.
>
>
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