Phantom clicks on desktop - eviltoast

I’ve been having a serious issue with phantom clicks on a laptop, to a point is nearly impossible to work on a desktop.

At first I assumed it was something related with a bluetooth daemon call that kept returning an error on startup. I forced access to a CLI and managed to uninstall the bluez package but the issue persisted.

I assumed then it was an issue with the mouse itself but after unplugging it completely, using the touchpad had the same behaviour. I also tried tweaking the mouse settings, to no difference.

Finally, I tried booting into Windows, as this machine has a dual boot, and there both mouse and touchpad report no erratic bahaviour.

After a few online searches, I found similar issues reported but back in 2014, mostly related with kernel drivers, which by now must be solved, as the system initially didn’t had this issue, with a fresh install.

The only non-repo app the system has is Zoom and, again, it didn’t started having this issue when installed.

Can someone spare some advice on this?

My temptation is to just do a fresh install but as I once read somewhere “we don’t do that here”. :)

The distro being run is Mint, on a generic Intel based laptop.

  • qyron@sopuli.xyzOP
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    7 hours ago

    Annoying but cute. I’m very careful with making sure the correct dongle is inserted in the computer.

    I use a vertical mouse no one else is capable of using and all the other mice in the house are conventional.

    There was a time where I regularly made a fool of myself by having more than one mouse connected.

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        4 hours ago

        I’ve been considering getting one of those for years but how do they fare with playing games.

        I’m mostly a casual gamer but some require acting fast.

        • Serge Matveenko@lemmings.world
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          4 hours ago

          3D shooters – hard no. Everything else pretty much ok: city building, civilization. I play arcade games using gamepad though. However, I’ve got my best records in gnome-mines using trackball:) The game is a good way of training using one as well