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No Mouse Hover Functions in El Capitan

Hi,

Having upgraded to El Capitan (Version 10.11 (15A284)) a few days ago, I've since noticed that none of the mouse over or hover functions work. This applies to things like the Safari, where hovering over a link will not highlight it, or a YouTube video where the scrub bars do not appear when moving the cursor over the video element. It also applies to other bowsers like Firefox.

It also seems to apply to the OS interface itself. Instead of simply clicking on the top menu (File, Edit, etc...) and moving the cursor over each item to highlight it, I need to hold down the mouse button and release in order to select something.

Now, what I'm not sure of is if this is by design, or if it's a genuine bug.

If it's the former, is there an option to revert the mouse behaviours back to the more traditional 'click, hover, click' like there was is previous OS X releases?
If it's the latter, then how would I go about reporting the bug?

I realise this is a fairly minor issue, but it's kinda frustrating.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Niall

iMac (24-inch Mid 2007), OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 3, 2015 3:21 PM

22 replies

lby826

Level 1

8 points

Jul 24, 2016 3:41 AM in response to StrictlySpeaking

I have the same problem as you described. I just download and install new release from mad cat(10.11). Nothing change.

Jul 27, 2016 9:48 PM in response to Community User

This just started happening to me after upgrading the OS yesterday (now at 10.11.6).

Jul 27, 2016 10:29 PM in response to fakeshop

I am using an elecom wired mouse that was working perfectly until an upgrade to 10.11.6 yesterday, now I have lost all hover and mouseover functionality no matter where I plug this mouse in. Any fix?

anavioc

Level 1

4 points

Jul 27, 2016 11:08 PM in response to seanfromminato-ku

The unique solution I found is unplug and plug the mouse when the problem happen

Jul 27, 2016 11:25 PM in response to anavioc

This approach had zero effect. In fact the problem doesn't "happen", it exists. Permanently. Other weird stuff does "happen" though. For instance I just accidentally clicked somehow on the Helpful" button and then the system seemed to think I was copying something and wouldn't let me interact with anything else until I quit safari. This is one weird update. They forgot how to interface with a mouse? wow.

anavioc

Level 1

4 points

Jul 28, 2016 12:07 AM in response to seanfromminato-ku

In my case, it works unplugging and plugging the mouse but I suppose is not the same problem that yours

deibiddo

Level 1

8 points

Dec 2, 2016 8:47 AM in response to Community User

Hi!

This same issue was driving me mad as it appeared all of a sudden out of nowhere.

I also got my clicks and right clicks malfunctioning.

I had several mouse drivers installed which seemed to work pretty well so far.

These were:

Steermouse (to be able to configure buttons on my mouse)

Scroll reverser (to be able to reverse only the mouse scroll. Natural scroll is cool and makes sense for trackpad. For regular good ol' mouse scroll wheel it is very annoying!)

Logitech Gaming Software (to be able to control the DPI buttons on my logitech g500)

Smooth mouse (does what it says, without it mouse movement was grainy since the yosemite/el capitan upgrade)

I would be very happy if I would not have to use that many mouse drivers and apps for my trackpad and mice to work well, but that is what power mac users get.

So what have helped me solve this issue was to enable smooth mouse for trackpad too in smooth mouse preferences inside system prefs.

Wo-hoo!

Cheers.

No Mouse Hover Functions in El Capitan