Could not grab your mouse

[The Doctor]

When I click on the package manager I get this dialogue box:
Could not grab your mouse
A Malicious client may be eavesdropping on your session or you may have just clicked a menu or some application just decided to get focus.
Try again.

When I try again, the same dialogue box comes up and I can not get the package manager to open.

Any Ideas?

[OnlyMe]

I had that happen the other day. Now my laptop screen just flickers for a second and no package manager.

Dell Inspiron 1525 Celeron

[The Doctor]

Sounds like a distro problem. I just got finished re-inatlling and adding my software favorites.

[hallandnash]

I've had this problem and know the fix ...

The problem is when you click on the Package Manager the menu stays open. This causes the error because there is a security function to disallow keyloggers to trap your password.

There are 2 ways to fix this:

1. After clicking on the package manager, click your desktop, this closes the menu.
or
2. Make sure all Items are showing in the menu (Place,Applications,System). There should be no "tab" bar on the left and a blank dot at the top. When you click on any item in the menu now it should close the menu.

[OnlyMe]

Thank you, hallandnash, #1 did it for me.

[OnlyMe]

Thank you, hallandnash, #1 did it for me.

Thank you, hallandnash! #1 did it for me, too.

[Jjude]

#1 did it for me too, thanks for that!

[thackermon2]

#1, and #2 worked. Simply clearing the square in the upper left corner solves the issue -- no need to click the desktop.

Thanks!

[rdonnelly]

Thanks, I did step 2 and it worked for me also I have Gloria, and the bug also.

[Calib]

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

[chrome46]

Thanks a million - #2 if any one's counting.

[jomel]

Am new to Linux Mint and have the same problem which occurs every session. Thanks to this forum I am able to fix it but it is a bit annoying.
Any news of a fix?

[Vidar]

I have just installed Mint a week ago and this is the first annoying bug that I came a cross. No biggie since forum search gave the answer. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next release...

[Neuromancer]

Great, I thought I fscked something up.............thats on Gloria too.........

Actually in light of real bugs? When I go to Control Panel and hit synaptic no problems..........but will definitely close Menu after clicking.........the message seemed to want me to stay on the menu over synaptic.....then again, I could be very, very wrong? But on any debian based system? Synaptic is not to be trusted..........its faster(actually its not, but) , its visual, its easier..........but real men use apt or aptitude or a preferred distro tool...........haven't worked too much with the other package tool on mint.....but I would blame this on the ever shady synaptic, rather than the distro..........just my opinion..........glad I have a reason so I don't start hacking away and uninstalling something that isn't broken so much is conflicted between two processes and sudo and root perms............thanks for the question and the heads up.

cheers

[mick55]

Hi

It started happening to me today and it was really becoming annoying.
This is how I fixed it.

Open a terminal[Menu->Terminal]
and run this

Code: Select all

gconf-editor

click on apps->mintmenu
clear pin_menu checkbox

Although i fixed it i was puzzled as to how it happened.
After reading this thread i can see that what i did was fat-finger
the mouse buttons while i was in the Mint Menu.

Glad i wasn't the only person this happened to, otherwise i would
never know what i did to fsck it up.

cheers
mick

[yeeshkull]

>>>1. After clicking on the package manager, click your desktop, this closes the menu. <<<

This worked for me. Thanks!

[Mimmo]

Fixed. Thank you very much pals you been a great help

[cgsa79]

When I click on the package manager I get this dialogue box:
Could not grab your mouse
A Malicious client may be eavesdropping on your session or you may have just clicked a menu or some application just decided to get focus.
Try again.

When I try again, the same dialogue box comes up and I can not get the package manager to open.

Any Ideas?

[Daveleh]

When I click on the package manager I get this dialogue box:
Could not grab your mouse
A Malicious client may be eavesdropping on your session or you may have just clicked a menu or some application just decided to get focus.
Try again.

When I try again, the same dialogue box comes up and I can not get the package manager to open.

Any Ideas?

This is exactly the same problem I had here:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=43616

In the end I overcame it by reinstalling. As yet I have no idea what could have caused it.

Regards

[Cliff]

This also happened to me.
But when I closed the side pane (on the left side of the Menu when it opens) the problem disappeared.
Also sometimes the Package manager wouldn't open, I never saw the password window and I had to click outside the menu to close it.
All of this appears to be working normally now.
Now when I click on package manager, the menu closes instantly, the password box appears and the "Could not grab your mouse"
message doesn't appear.
Thanks to all for their input on this.
Cliff