sugar on 64 bit ubuntu clobbers mouse outside Sugar

[AndyHarrington]

I had the exact same problem as another person who wrote on the Ubuntu forum: When I first started sugar on Ubuntu, the mouse was messed up and there was an ongoing problem thereafter *outside* of sugar: When I click the mouse inside a gnome window, I get the drag icon for the mouse, and I can drag the window. To get regular mouse that should not have a modified key, I need to press shift or Alt. Again this is outside of sugar and still happens after rebooting, and after removing sugar.

This is just a mouse issue. The alt and shift keys work fine for pure keyboard actions.

I am using ubuntu 10.4 on a new dual core 64 bit Intel machine from System 76. I added the sugar emulator 0.88.

[sascha_silbe]

Can you state explicitly what you were doing (especially the commands you entered), what happened and what you expected to happen?

This sounds like you ran sugar instead of sugar-emulator inside a Gnome session. sugar is a direct alternative to Gnome ("desktop environment"); you can't run both in the same session. What sugar-emulator does is setting up a "virtual" X server as a window of the current session (i.e. Gnome) and start sugar within that new session (inside the virtual X server).
Long story short: If you want to try out Sugar from within Gnome, please run sugar-emulator instead of sugar.

[AndyHarrington]

What I downloaded was sugar-emulator. I did not download or install sugar. After downloading the emulator I ran it from the applications menu -> educaton->.... The sugar opening window that came up was non-responsive to the mouse. I forget if the close button worked or I ended up killing the process. After that I got the strange mouse behavior permanently.