Comment 3 for bug 511225

Rafael Ortiz

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:46 AM, David Farning <email address hidden> wrote:
> BTW, even though your code snippet is not  strictly a patch.  It is
> enough to point a triager or developer in the right direction.  That is
> a huge help.
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> mouse bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511225
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> Status in “sugar-0.88” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
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> Bug description:
> After installing this package, the mouse is not working like its supposed to in Gnome. <ctrl> needs to be pressed when clicking for the left mouse button to work. Bug only appears after sugar is used.  Henry Grover wrote this shell script to fix the bug temporarily:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #Fix metacity clicking problem caused by alsroot's sugar, run in the home directory of whoever has the problem
>
> rm .gconf/apps/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/general/%gconf.xml
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Hi Michael

Thanks for your help.
are you sure you want to make the first step..

 rm .gconf/apps/%gconf.xml ?

i agree with you that the bug can be introduced by metacity..but not
all the apps