left mouse click stuck in right click mode

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left mouse click stuck in right click mode

This now happens way to often. I'm on computer A controlling computer B via Remote Desktop. Now I switch on compter A to a different app (i.e. Safari) and then back to ARD. Every mouse click on the compter B window is now a right click. I have to close the ARD session with compter B and open it it again to get my proper left click function back.

2 MacPros 2.8GHz 8core - 12GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.5), ARD 3.2.2

Posted on Dec 4, 2008 3:19 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 5, 2008 2:41 PM in response to EdgarRothermich

Are you on a laptop? Or are you holding the control key as you click outside of the ARD window and into a new program?

If so, and maybe either way... once you are back in the ARD window, just press the control key once so that the ARD window "releases" that key.

If you are holding it or right clicking out of the ARD window, the ARD session is assuming you are still holding it, so every time you click, it thinks you are right clicking.

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Answer 2

Dec 5, 2008 4:12 PM in response to James Engelby

No, it is mostly between different desktop machines, PPC, Intels, LAN an internet connections

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Answer 3

Dec 5, 2008 4:15 PM in response to EdgarRothermich

when it happens next time, try pressing the control key while in the ARD window that its right clicking in. See what happens then.

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Answer 4

Dec 8, 2008 10:39 AM in response to James Engelby

Whoa, that works. It is better than logging out and back in again. Thanks.
Do you have any idea why the control key get "stuck" when switching between app?

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Answer 5

Dec 8, 2008 10:43 AM in response to EdgarRothermich

Maybe you are right clicking outside of the ARD session window? Since right click is the same as holding the control key and clicking.

I just know that it was a possibility because I used to use the Option key a lot to hide all the ARD windows when I clicked out of ARD. Then when I went back into the session, it would act like the Option key was still being held the whole time.

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