[SOLVED] mouse right click not working in red hat enterprise linux

piyusharora420 · 11-20-2010, 05:39 AM

hi everybody
i am suffering from very strange problem.i am using red hat and my mouse right click is not working in it.my mouse is ok i have checked it on windows system.please tell me what to do?

honeybadger · 11-27-2010, 04:03 AM

Check -» administration » mouse. You would be able to configure mouse from there. Also try running mouseconfig (it is there in slackware and *bsd) and try to reconfigure mouse.

piyusharora420 · 12-02-2010, 11:10 PM

mouseconfig is not a command.
also i have not found any thing in mouse settings.after opening the terminal right click works when i right on the terminal screen.Otherwise it does not work.

honeybadger · 12-03-2010, 12:12 AM

Some pointers that may help:
1) Try creating a new user and see if the mouse works properly.
2) I installed scientific linux and it has sysconfig-mouse. I think Red Hat would have a simillar option.
If this mouse is a PS2 then change it to something else and then change it back to PS2.
Since all these commands are to be executed as root back up the files if needed. I would back up my entire /etc if I was doing this.
Hope this helps.

piyusharora420 · 12-06-2010, 04:17 AM

sysconfig-mouse is not working.I found nothing in mouse setting under preferences.please help me.i am using rhel5 in vmware.please find out a solution for me

Aquarius_Girl · 01-06-2011, 01:37 AM

mouseconfig may require root permissions. Did you try the command after logging in root?
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/mouseconfig8.html

Did you install the guest additions in vmware?

piyusharora420 · 01-07-2011, 12:41 AM

ya i tried that time.but got error, command not found.
now i have installed fresh copy.i want to close this thread,because i am not facing problem now.how can i?

Aquarius_Girl · 01-07-2011, 12:47 AM

Just marked the thread SOLVED, if you think your issue is solved, look at the top of this page.