Previously posted on Ubuntuforums with no reply
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How to explain this one...
My mouse sometimes works enough to open an application by clicking on the "ubuntu menu" after starting. If I open an application example: firefox my left mouse button does not work until I have right clicked "somewhere". That "somewhere" varies but is usually near the top of the screen then I get a left click to use and it wont work again till I right click the "somewhere" again. It seems to not register the mouse hovering over the item at all even though the pointer moves to it it doesn't highlight what I am hovering over.
On other applications there is no "somewhere" to to right click and I have to alt+F4 to close.
The install is about a month old but I have only started using it regularly about 3 days ago. The problem has only appeared today.
The last thing I Installed was virtualbox through apt which I removed.
I have also removed compiz to see if it was that. No luck.
Where else do I start?