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I use Ubuntu 17.10 and just recently I experience mouse issue which can't click on wayland. If I switch to Xorg or unity my mouse click back to normal. The problem is I depending on wayland because my wine application works better on wayland, while on Xorg or Unity it crashes everytime I strated the program.

I already tried

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

but it doesn't seem bring any differences, Please help

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  • What is the result of typing uname -r in the terminal? – WinEunuuchs2Unix Jan 15 '18 at 4:35
  • @WinEunuuchs2Unix it's 4.13.0-25-generic – 6warrior Jan 15 '18 at 7:00
  • this makes me frustated, i did a fresh install, it work for a moment but after i update and restart, the problem persist, meanwhile i'm on deadline. perhaps the problem is on the kernel, can anyone help? – 6warrior Jan 17 '18 at 9:58
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    Try using sudo rmmod psmouse followed by sudo modprobe psmouse as described in this answer and let me know. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Jan 17 '18 at 11:13
  • @WinEunuuchs2Unix it doesn't work – 6warrior Jan 17 '18 at 12:29
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Disabling Wayland must solve this issue. Similar question was answered here. Worked for me.

If you wish to do it permanently, edit

/etc/gdm3/custom.conf and uncomment the line:

#WaylandEnable=false

Save the file and then on reboot you will never see the cog asking for which session to use.

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  • disabling wayland cause another problem, my wine application (skecthup) crashes everytime it started on xorg – 6warrior Feb 8 '18 at 23:59

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