Maya ui not respondig to wacom pen clicks.

[marcus.jungerstam]

When working in Maya it's like the whole ui get stuck in middle mouse drag mode. This happens every 5-10 minutes. Only way I get rid of it by is restarting Maya. Sometimes starting a new application helps.

I have tried roling back to old wacom drivers, deliting prefs etc but it dosen't help. I have reinstalled Maya a couple of times as well without any success.

Anyone else having this problem or have figure out a fix for it?

I work in alot of other tools like zbrush, nuke, substance etc and this 100% only a maya thing.

Screen Recording 2025-03-26 at 14.15.51.mov

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[siebejanssen]

I have this problem too. On M1 max, It happens often when I middle mouse drag something in the outliner to a selection set for instance, it gets stuck in drag mode.

[marcus.jungerstam]

Updated to maya 2016 didn’t help. It seams more and more that the problem is mayas ui and how it handles external displays on Mac’s. First I thought it was the Wacom drivers. But after having this problem for the last months it feels like it’s the whole ui that doesn’t respond to mouse inputs, it’s almost like Maya doesn’t know where the mouse is and what’s buttons I use.

The marking menus in the viewport is also buggy and jumps around when I use it. Especially if I have the UV window open. Then it freaks out.

I am trying to record when it happens but seam like screen recording resets mayas ui so that it’s starts working during the recording.

[marcus.jungerstam]

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Manage to record the bugg I was writing about in the post above. In the video you can see me left clicking both with a Wacom pen and a mouse.