| harrec[m] | I'm having a couple weird issues. My touchpad click stops working randomly. Cursor and scroll continue to work, it's only click that stops. I thought maybe it was tied to suspension or screen lock but no, that doesn't seem to be the case. modprobe -r psmouse | modprobe psmouse don't fix the issue either. | 20:54 |
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| harrec[m] | And now, ctrl-alt-t isn't opening terminal, thought it was before I restarted, to get my mouseclick working again | 20:54 |
| harrec[m] | Opening Shortcuts and messing around with the settings (but not ultimately changing anything) seems to have fixed opening Terminal. I noticed shortcuts to disable touchpad also, I made sure those were disabled altogether just in case that was my issue. | 20:57 |
| harrec[m] | I do notice when my click stops working, it seems to be stuck in mouse-click-down mode on whatever screen I'm in. If I'm in a browser, moving the cursor around, moves the text selection/highlight around as if I'm holding click down. | 20:59 |
| arraybolt3[m] | That's odd - I've had similar problems on Windows that usually required that I reboot it or fiddle around with it to make it work again - I think it's a hardware issue if you're experiencing it on Linux too. | 21:08 |
| arraybolt3[m] | harrec: ^ | 21:09 |
| harrec[m] | Well, I've used Win10 on this laptop for about a year now with no issues. And well, I've been on UbuntuStudio for a couple weeks without issues. It just popped up yesterday and persists into today. I also had a lot of updates yesterday that wouldn't auto-upgrade. I had to upgrade each of them manually with apt install. | 21:21 |
| arraybolt3[m] | harrec: For the upgrade problem, you might just need to do "sudo apt full-upgrade" rather than just "sudo apt upgrade". | 21:22 |
| Eickmeyer[m] | There's also quite a bit of KDE Plasma glitches and bugfixes that might get resolved by adding the Kubuntu Backports repository via "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports". | 21:24 |
| Eickmeyer[m] | Some of which might be keyboard shortcuts. | 21:25 |
| harrec[m] | 343 upgrades available! woowee | 21:27 |
| harrec[m] | Thanks I'll give this a shot | 21:27 |
| arraybolt3[m] | harrec: BACK UP IMPORTANT DATA | 21:27 |
| arraybolt3[m] | (I've had that PPA backfire a couple of times - it may have just been something weird on my end, but I'd keep a backup juuust in case. :P) | 21:27 |
| harrec[m] | Yeah I've still got my backup from when I migrated from Windows, nothing new since then | 21:28 |
| harrec[m] | Thanks for the heads up | 21:28 |
| arraybolt3[m] | 👍️ | 21:28 |
| harrec[m] | I don't remember if I tried full-upgrade or not, I think someone on askubuntu had recommended against that in case there were conflicting depends? | 21:28 |
| arraybolt3[m] | I've had zero problems with full-upgrades - I only ever use full upgrades since a usual upgrade can leave a lot of packages un-updated. | 21:29 |
| Eickmeyer[m] | Seems like a silly thing to recommend against in my opinion. | 21:29 |
| Eickmeyer[m] | The package management system is pretty smart about not removing things you need. | 21:29 |
| arraybolt3[m] | (I think there's something that can go wrong in certain server setups with a full-upgrade and you'd just use upgrade in those scenarios or something like that, but I've never hit a problem, and if it's about to blow up, it will tell you before nuking everything and you'll have a chance to back out.) | 21:30 |
| harrec[m] | Well, somewhere in the middle of that upgrade it happened again | 21:46 |
| harrec[m] | Anything I can do to troubleshoot it while it's happening? | 21:46 |
| Eickmeyer[m] | What was the error? | 21:53 |
| harrec[m] | The click not working | 21:53 |
| harrec[m] | I have cursor movement but no click | 21:53 |
| Eickmeyer[m] | Weird. | 21:54 |
| Eickmeyer[m] | Sounds like a hardware issue. | 21:54 |
| harrec[m] | It acts like it's stuck "clicked" | 21:54 |
| harrec[m] | It was fine for the past year before installing Ubuntustudio | 21:54 |
| harrec[m] | Well but to be fair, it worked fine for the previous week too, so I can't rule out hardware | 21:55 |
| harrec[m] | Oh. | 21:55 |
| harrec[m] | -_-' | 21:55 |
| harrec[m] | i just grabbed my little wireless mouse out of my travel bag | 21:55 |
| harrec[m] | ...it was on | 21:55 |
| Eickmeyer[m] | That would do it. | 21:56 |
| harrec[m] | lol, oh man. | 21:56 |
| Eickmeyer[m] | And, to be honest, I've had that happen to me. It's like, "WTH is going on?????" and then I realize my mouse connected and nothing is working. | 21:56 |
| Eickmeyer[m] | So, my assessment was right. Hardware issue. I'll stop short of saying user error. | 21:57 |
| harrec[m] | :) haha well thanks as always | 21:58 |
| Eickmeyer[m] | Hehe, no problem. | 21:59 |
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