Debian Squeeze: Left mouse click stops working

Question

After starting a new session in my Debian Squeeze (6.0.4, always updated) running in a VM (VMWare Workstation) there comes the point in time where the left mouse click stops working, so that I cannot resize windows, bring them to front etc.

Sometimes I can switch window focus with the right click or with right-click and Control key held at the same time, but then it does not work at all.

Keys are accepted. I do not run anything special, just Emacs, Okular, Thunderbird and such stuff.

Unfortunately I cannot give any sequence of events which reliably creates the problem.

Is there a known fix to this problem (my googling efforts were not successful) or do i have to switch to KDE or LXFE?

Solution

I have the same issue and have not found a proper fix for this, what I end up doing is modprobe -r psmouse, then modprobe psmouse to get back control.

Comments

[radix07]

This works for me, but there has got to be a better fix.