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Left mouse click on Wacom Intuos4 tablet seems to be stuck

Hello,

I have an Intuos4 graphic tablet under Mac OS X 10.6.4 and I use the latest available driver (6.1.5-2). I have an issue with the tablet: after a specific amount of time I can’t do a normal click with the pen and the click seems to be „stuck“ (like you would normally click and drag for selection). I cannot solve the problem by disconnecting and reconnecting the tablet. The only solution so far seems to be to attach an USB mouse, press the left mouse button and detach the mouse again. The tablet works fine afterwards, but only for a couple of minutes / hours. I’ve also tried to reinstall the driver, but this didn’t solve the problem. The next step I took was to connect the tablet directly to an USB port of the Mac Pro instead using the USB hub of my Cinema Display. This didn’t fix the problem. Do you have any suggestions how I can fix my problem and get the left mouse click to reliably work again?

Thanks in advance.

MacPro4,1, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 8-core 2,66 GHz, ATI Radeon HD 4870 & NVIDIA GeForce GT 120

Posted on Jul 28, 2010 1:41 AM

32 replies

Sep 4, 2015 5:20 AM in response to LarsDaniel

I've had this for years and even had a discussion on the Wacom boards, with their support man, who sort of shrugged his shoulders in an 'online' way ... if that's at all possible.

Anyway ... my mouse has been sitting in a drawer for at least a couple of years, but for one reason or another I recently got it out and tried it again. I cleaned the pad underneath, which seemed to help, but the left button still either missed clicks, or double-clicked. I tried re-assigning the buttons so I could workaround it, but I've been clicking a mouse with my left finger since 1989, so that didn't work.

In frustration, I adopted a similar technique to the fix for an iPhone's stuck autofocus ... I hit the button several times with my three middle fingers. Firmly but not violently. It's been working since. Ho hum.

Nov 4, 2016 9:59 PM in response to Grant Symon

You're a genius! It worked! Thank you!

Left mouse click on Wacom Intuos4 tablet seems to be stuck