Sunday, November 29, 2009

mouse




On my sweet beautiful laptop that I make music with, I'm running Windows 7. Being a total Linux nerd, I need my Linux, so I both dual-boot and, more often, use the amazing VirtualBox to host an Ubuntu client. With this, I can run a single session for a long time, weeks in real life time, and often plug in an external mouse. When I do this, it works great, but then later when I don't have my mouse plugged in, I can't use the shortcut of both mouse buttons on the touchpad to do a paste operation.

To fix this, go:


sudo rmmod psmouse ; sudo modprobe psmouse


This will remove your mouse driver and resintall it.