> Since it seems to all be working for me, I hesitate to mess with it.
Yeah, I understand!
> So my workaround, and it is quite effective is to place two large
> bandaids on the left and right side of the touchpad,
LOL. I thought about doing that as well! It's that annoying.
> what would happen
Having found a way to reliably reproduce the issue I vaguely understand
what is happening.
The kernel psmouse driver probes the TouchPad, reognizes it as a
Synaptic touchpad, and performs Synaptic-specific initialization. This
happens regardless of whether the TouchPad is switched off in the BIOS
I have had an engineer replace the TrackPad just to make sure, but the
problem persists.
I can reliably reproduce the problem now though.
If, while pressing the top buttons on the TrackPad (the physical ones),
you simultaneously touch the TrackPad itself with your thumb, and then
release the phys
Happy to hear the workaround is useful Jont.
In the meantime I have experienced stuck buttons a few times, but a lot
less frequently. It seems to help to disable the trackpad in the BIOS.
It may be related to waking up from a sleep state (wild conjecture).
All in all I wouldn't say this was "solv
Same problem here on 16.04 and X250. Mouse buttons sometimes get stuck,
not only the left but also the middle and probably the right buttons.
They are used much less frequently so you don't notice it as much.
The workaround in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1506817/comments/1
