I lost my mouse clicking ability in 10.1.1

majormatt

It happened earlier today, for a second my screen freezes then I lost my mouse click ability. The mouse still moves, but I cant click on anything. Is anyone else experience this odd quark?



Jeesh, I had to click tab 100000 times in IE to get to this post buttom.

noahj

[quote]Originally posted by MajorMatt:

<strong>It happened earlier today, for a second my screen freezes then I lost my mouse click ability. The mouse still moves, but I cant click on anything. Is anyone else experience this odd quark?



Jeesh, I had to click tab 100000 times in IE to get to this post buttom.</strong><hr></blockquote>



I have not, anything at MacFixit about this? Oh, and try shift Tab to start fromthe bottom maybe for faster post.

ghost_user_name

Are you running any third perty software (besides Explorer obviously)? Have you rebooted since?

majormatt

I think its a system wide thing.



Relogging/restarting works. However, restarting the finder doesnt work.

ghost_user_name

Well, has this happened more than once? I ask because I've never experienced or even heard of anything like this before. If it is a recurring problem, have you found any pattern to it? Some apps can still cause bugs system wide, so I'd still like to know what apps you're running when it happens.

majormatt

Mail and IE.

ghost_user_name

But is it a recurring problem?



Can you think of anything more specific that's usually going on when it happens? Like, for example, when IE is loading a page in the background, or when Mail is deleting messages from a server, or when downloading in IE, or anything? I've got Mail and IE running with no problems so far, and I'm trying different things to see if I can reproduce what you described.



Or does it honestly just seem random?

besson3c

does this same problem in a different home directory? Go create a new user and see if this happens there as well....

majormatt

I have done some further testing and it only appears to affect my admin. account.



I just booted up/logged in and open IE, I hold down my "0" key on my numeric keyboard for a few seconds and then I lose mouse control in IE and the finder.



Odd <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

hombre

Well, this thread is nearly five years old, but this just happened to me in 10.4.7. At first it may seem like the GUI is frozen and it is quite disconcerting, so I thought I would post the solution for the sake of posterity.



This is caused hitting zero on the numeric keypad when Mouse Keys is turned on in the Universal Access preference pane. The zero key represents "press and hold." Pressing 5 on the numeric keypad releases press and hold and solves the problem. So does pressing the option key five times to turn mouse keys off if you have that option checked.

chucker

Wow.



I just looked at the thread and thought "10.1.1? That's a joke, right? Some sick, cruel, joke, right? Right?" Until I saw the date.



What a bump.

thinine

Zombie! Kill it!