my kde plasma occasionally acts weird with my mouse (self.kde)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Kareemofficial to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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hi so i use kde and i have a few small mouse problems that appear out of nowhere that is so annoying

1: sometimes my left click acts as right click (i think it also does other weird things) and right click does NOTHING (seriously, i tested it)

2: sometimes when i am dragging a window, it dosent stop dragging even tho i stopped holding left click, but sometimes i can stop it from dragging by pressing esc

3: simular as above but for the task bar, when i hover over a app on the task bar very rarely it will automaticly drag it

1 and 2 always happens together, which is weird, and these problems usally happens when my pc isturned on, and randomly happens when i am doing stuff

if you know why this happens, id love to know

ALSO, I AM SURE ITS NOT MY MOUSE CAUSING IT, THESE PROBLEMS ONLY HAPPENS WHEN I AM USING KDE, NOWHERE ELSE

Edit: just realised it was steamos, cuz i switched to cachyos steam deck edition and it fixed it, ugh

accidentally posted this twice, sorry <3

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[-] magikmw@piefed.social 1 points 5 months ago

Before you say it's 100% not the mouse - have you checked with a different mouse? It may be problems on any part of this interface, but you know, simple elimination.

[-] Kareemofficial 3 points 5 months ago

alr imma check with a different mouse

[-] Kareemofficial 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

forgot to test it, now i did and yep its kde, how do i fix it

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 5 months ago

I have not had those issues but for some reason gnome does handle my trackpad right clicks and such better than kde although I think kde is better about not interpreting a right click as a left click

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