Problem with Hot Corners, Dock, and Cursor

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Bryan Ricker

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I'm having a few odd symptoms...

1. My hot corners stopped working, seemingly for no reason. However, hitting F12 and F11 still work (dashboard and desktop, respectively).

2. When I put the cursor into the dock, the title shows up only for the first icon that I mouse-over... when I move the cursor to another icon, the title doesn't change but stays on the first one. It goes away when I move the cursor off of the dock.

3. The cursor isn't changing properly to the hand when I mouse over links, or to the typewriter icon when mousing over a block of text. Also, the "right-click" (left-click for me, actually) on my mouse has stopped working, but CTRL+Click still works.

This all came about at the same time, and I've tried restarting the Dock and restarting my computer, both didn't change anything.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Bryan
 
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Check System Preferences->Mouse! Are all settings in place? Is your mouse probably differently identified from what it used to be?

Marcus
 
Everything is fine in the mouse settings.

Everything has returned to normal now, again for no reason seemingly, without a restart or anything like that. Very weird. Now I'm just wondering why it happened and how I can fix it next time it happens.
 
Ok, it went back to the same symptoms. I also noticed that the screensave doesn't work... it just keeps fading out and coming back, never actually going to the screensaver.
 
I just discovered that if I unplug the mouse and just use the trackpad, everything works fine... but once I plug in the mouse, everything is haywire again (even if I use the trackpad with the mouse plugged in).
 
I'm having the same problem here. It started recently; I'm running a MacBook Pro, but the problem seems unrelated to an external mouse. Occasionally I get an outline as if I'm dragging something in Firefox or Thunderbird, and I can't get rid of this except for killing these applications. This clears the outline... but it doesn't restore correct mouse behavior.

If you find a solution, please clue me in!
 
Problem solved! And a silly cause, too. I use a second monitor at work, connected through a KVM switch. When connected to the external monitor I also get the other mouse. It was under some books (since I never use it, I'd even forgotten it was there) in my messy office, and the right button was pressed. Unplugged it and presto! Problem solved.

And let me just say "d'oh!" Life's good again. So... make sure you're mouse doesn't have the right button sticking (if you use an external), and make sure you know where all your mice are. :-)
 
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