[PLUG] Screwy Mouse Response

[Dick Steffens]

I'm getting a screwy lack of control of the mouse this morning. It's 
working okay at the moment, but frequently I'll get a situation where 
various things can happen. I say that because I'm not sure exactly 
what's going on. One of the things that seems to happen is that the 
mouse cursor doesn't track with the mouse movement, but at the same 
time, if I drag over something it will be selected and acted upon. For 
example, while I was trying to get a response to moving the mouse it 
seems that I dragged over the icon to start Google Earth, and it 
started. Also, I had a LiberOffice Writer document open, and opened a 
LibreOffice spreadsheet. As I moved the cursor over the spreadsheet, all 
of a sudden that area of the spreadsheet was selected, copied, and then 
pasted into the LO Writer document. Weird.

After a couple of minutes things settle down and I can again move the 
mouse and have the mouse cursor track said movement. I tried rebooting 
to the next most recent version of Ubuntu 12.04, (was 28 something, now 
25 something) but that didn't take away the problem.

The only guess -- and it may just be coincidence -- is that this seems 
to have occurred after upgrading to Google Earth 7. I wouldn't expect 
that to matter, though.

Has anybody else using Ubuntu 12.04 experienced anything like this?

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Regards,

Dick Steffens