Mouse scrolling switches desktop, gnome install broken

[msptump]

Hi,

First, let me say that Linux Mint with Fluxbox has been the best distro I've tried to date. Almost everything worked with very little tweaking (Envy with dpkg-reconfigure xorg was about all). I've been using for about 10 days, and suddenly my mouse is acting weird. When I try to scroll say, Firefox, while the mouse is within the Firefox window and the Firefox window has focus, my system scroll through workspaces. Also, right mouse click, in any app while the app has focus, will pull up the fluxbox menu. Using the ctrl and alt keys is a temporary work around, but annoying. I don't see any mouse configuration tools, which I'm thinking isn't the problem anyway, since, well, I didn't mess with that to begin with. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Matt

[Husse]

Sorry for late answer
I suspect hardware failure of sorts
Is it a USB mouse? PS2?
And what has gnome to do with this?

[mpstump]

I almost gave up on this post. I still haven't figured out the problem. I don't think it's a hardware issue, as I installed KDE and the mouse is fine. I'm using a MS wireless mouse with scroll. I had tried to install gnome, which is a different problem, so I figured that I should put that in a different post, but I forgot to change the title of the original post. I'm betting it's a configuration thing, so I'm thinking of re-installing, but am not sure how to go about that without completely hosing my system.

[Husse]

When I see this type of behaviour it's generally a hardware problem. I have a cordless Logitech and just before the batteries run out I can get things like that.

[OU812]

That is by design - scrolling your mouse wheel while on the desktop will change workspaces in fluxbox. Also, you can drag windows to other workspaces by dragging them to the left or right edges of the screen. The right-click menu is always available in fluxbox. The menu will also stay available until you click on the desktop again. This is also by design.

john

[oxyjohn]

Was this issue resolved? I'm having what seems to be the same issue with my mouse, and I don't believe it is a hardware issue. I am using a usb wireless mouse (on my Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop), but the problem is also there with my built in touchpad.

After the initial install, things were working wonderfully, and I do love the Linux Mint Fluxbox version so far, just having this one problem with it.

If I can't figure this out soon, I'll just have to try a re-install, my only concern is if it just happens again after reinstall.

oxyjohn

[ShadeTree]

99.997% of the time (just like Ivory Soap) when it stops working after a period of time and reloading or rebooting the driver.. IT IS THE BATTERY!

ShadeTree

[invisosniper]

The Problem you are describing sounds like the problem i had. Had you been playing with the fbkeys configuration applet? to try and add shortcuts?
If so, when you hit save anything that normally happens only on 'Desktop' will happen all the time.

fbkeys has this bug where if it doesn't recognize certain functions it removes them from your ~/.fluxbox/keys file.

I had that problem then fixed it by following this forum <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=617812>.
Now i just find it easier to edit the keys menu by hand

I hope this helps

Edit: The forum I linked, is not so much as a Step by Step Fix for that, It is a really nice tutorial on how to make your 'keys' file by hand due to the buggy fbkeys...
It is really easy, if you can edit a file you can setup your own key file in minutes!