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[Discuss] mouse problem



> On 05/28/16 13:48, dan moylan wrote:
>>
>> IngeGNUe <ingegnue at riseup.net> wrote:
>> On 05/27/16 18:35, dan moylan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> forever, i've been shown a pop-up menu when i right click in
>>>> my brower (either firefox or chrome), offering several
>>>> options, including "save as".  quite suddenly that
>>>> functionality has gone away, i.e. i right click and nothing
>>>> at all happens.  going to settings-- mouse/touchpad offers
>>>> no insight.
>>>>
>>>> fwiw i'm running fc21.
>>
>>> Does right click work in other places? Is it just with these
>>> browsers that right click doesn't work?
>>
>> no -- write click seems totally disabled.

> OK. Have you tried a different mouse?

actually that never occurred to me (my bad).  i just did and
now all is ok.  wow!  just a faulty mouse?

thanks,
ole dan

j. daniel moylan
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