So I've been having a weird problem, and I guess I don't know where to really look, or what to do. So, when I have my laptop on, my touchpad, or mouse will weirdly stop working. I am still able to move the cursor on the screen, but I'm not able to press on anything. I've taken my usb receiver out of my laptop to see if it was being caused by that, but the problem still occurs with my touch pad. I'm able to still move the cursor, but not able to press anything. It happens at completely random times. I had this problem happen before, but I formatted my laptop, and reinstalled debian. I'm running 3.16.0-4 Debian with Awesome as my window manager. If anyone could give me some advice on what logs to look at when this occurs, or what I should that would be awesome! Sorry if I didn't include enough relevant details, but this problem is just weird.

I wonder if this is related directly to the window manager? I'm not familiar with Awsome.

Anyway, you could examine if the mouse buttons are still generating events using xinput. Get the touchpad device
eg assuming device 10
or filter the button events
The xev utility can be used similarly. You may establish that the mouse buttons are being registered, but that another process or window is grabbing the event perhaps.

A quick search turned up this old thread on the same topic

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...esome-wm-gnome

I'd be searching for bug reports and submit one if necessary...
http://awesome.naquadah.org/