[ale] Trouble-shooting Mouse freezing

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 13:45:45 -0500
Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Running XFCE on Fedora 37, and for the past couple of weeks my mouse
> will occasionally freeze. The fix is to unseat the USB connection and
> reseat it, but I'm not seeing any common event happening to trigger
> the issue. I'm not seeing anything in /var/log/messages, but then
> again I'm not sure what to look for, either. Same for systemd logging.
> 
> Suggestions on where to start?

If you haven't replaced your mouse's battery for more than a month, do
it now with a high quality alkaline battery. It might not fix the
problem, but it's one less variable to have to consider.


SteveT

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