Upon further research I stumbled across a forum where someone suggested killing gnome-shell. I just tried it it and indeed everything was back to normal so that seems to confirm a gnome issue.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:59 AM, songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: > chris wrote: >> its not a wireless mouse and as i said ive tried several mice and >> disabling the internal touchpad. i looked in the logs after the fact >> and i dont see anything that stands out to me, but its also tricky >> because theres so much other non related noise in the logs its hard to >> filter out > > if you open a text terminal and use tailf > you may see things as they happen instead of > trying to find them later. > > try plugging the mouse into a different > slot. > > > songbird > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pn645a-ejo....@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKnNFz8+Z8Fm5Fh-80Nk5_U-Tk+wx=tadme7m6wagyjhfkr...@mail.gmail.com