Left click from mouse or touchpad stops working

I have no more answers, and it gets really annoying. After a while using the Asus LapTop I cant click on anything anymore. All I can do is power down. or ctrl + alt + T = reboot. The funny thing is that it happens on Reborn any Arch distro and on my Debian. Plus it happens to 2 different Mouse-hardware. 1 logi tech BT - 2nd has a usb device attached. I cleaned the mouse. But why does it work after reboot? It is like the system freezes. But on all ditros and different hardware. Any ideas?

Hi @Xox . Sorry for the late reply. Perhaps you can switch from Wayland to Xorg. I apologize I missed your post. Which desktop environment are you using?

Yes I was thinking about this also. I am using X11. Bought the 3rd mouse yesterday, still happens.
Most annoying is, when cursor - left klick - marks everything. As if it is stuck. Happens also sometimes. Copy paste doesnt always work.

Very interesting. Does the RebornOS live ISO work properly for you?

Never tried a live iso long enough. Something I forgot about. Which could play a role. I have a ZenBook UX534FTC_UX534FTC with Screenpad (Touchpad as aditional screen) And it happend before on Windows, that the cursor showed only on the small display., without me noticing it. F6 closed the small screen in MS. Linux I don´t know how to disable little screen without losing the touchpad function.

You perhaps have an external mouse to replace the touchpad sometimes when you disable your touchpad.

Hi, this is a little off topic. But I guess it is one big family. And maybe you can make something of it. My leftclick problem was nerve wracking. As soon I left the screen for a bit longer, coming back no ore leftclick. Sometimes even during work. Exactly as some others describe the issue.
I found this: sudo udevadm trigger. BUT FOR UBUNTU, this worked always so far. Would you have a solution for Arch? Same problem.

Hi @Xox ,

The udevadm executable is part of the systemd package on Arch Linux. So you should be able to use it similarly in Arch Linux too.

(Ref: udevadm(8) — Arch manual pages)

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