Some followup: on my Wheezy system, I find kpsmoused running, I don't see that on either my Jessie or Buster systems.
I'm guessing that kpmoused might be what helps the mouse run in Wheezy / non systemd. I'm pretty sure that Buster is systemd, and maybe so is Jessie. In any event, I can't find an actual file named kpsmoused on any of the systems (which surprises me on Wheezy). On Friday, April 24, 2020 02:34:29 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Today I had to reboot my Jessie system, after Firefox totally hung the > system (for over an hour, with 20 tabs open). After the reboot, it seems > that most things are working (well, the things I can test without a > mouse), but the mouse is not working. > > The Jessie system is connected to a KVM system, and because I had to run > some errands, I started the boot process and then left, with the KVM set > to the Jessie system. > > When I came back and tried it, I found that the mouse is not working. The > mouse still works on the other two systems connected to the KVM switch. > > I've tried googling and looking at (and trying some) commands found with > apropos mouse or apropos x (a lot), but I haven't found a way to activate > the mouse. > > (I'm assuming that if I reboot and mouse around early after the reboot, the > mouse will be activated, but I'd like to avoid another reboot, and maybe > learn something.) > > While I was looking for ways to activate the mouse, I did come across a > place where I could click (well, via a keyboard shortcut) something that > said something like: "activate mouse with KDE" -- maybe at some point in > time I fat fingered something that unchecked that? > > Anyway, suggestions appreciated. > > I have tried to get to the "system settings" ahha, ok, I can type > systemsettings at a CLI as user, but (1) I don't know how to navigate > within that page to get to the mouse device, (2) but (on another system), > although I see things to change about the mouse under Hardware ==> Input > Devices ==> Mouse, I don't see anything that appears to activate (or > de-activate) the mouse. > > Suggestions appreciated.
