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I use <https://parsec.app/|Parsec> to remote into my macOS machine and I've found that Fleet for some reason doesn't receive mouse clicks when connected this way. If I click repeatedly in the same location, eventually a click will be received, but mostly doesn't work. Double-clicks are also difficult to register.

I haven't seen this issue in other apps. And remoting with VNC works fine. I'm also pretty sure this wasn't a problem in previous versions of Fleet. This is with the latest 1.29.216 version.

Interesting. I haven’t seen this before. What Fleet version did you use where it worked for you?

Btw, have you considered using Fleet remote <https://www.jetbrains.com/help/fleet/connect-to-workspace.html|workspaces>? E.g. connect to a project, located on <https://www.jetbrains.com/help/fleet/install-on-a-remote-machine.html|remote host> from your local machine?

I tested and confirmed this isn't an issue in 1.28.117, only 1.29.216.

I haven't tried Fleet's remote workspaces yet. I did try JetBrains' remote connection a while back when it was first in preview, but wasn't able to get it to work at the time with AppCode.

Being able to develop KMP and iOS apps on a Mac from a remote PC would be great, if that works now in Fleet. But often I need to work with and switch between several apps while remoting to the macOS machine. So having Fleet work in this Parsec environment is also a big need.

<@UFX38V9SB> thanks for the report! I can confirm that 1.29 doesn’t reliably react to clicks coming from Parsec. I also lose about 25-50% of them. That is likely caused by some updates to how we handle pointer input that came with 1.29.
1.30 will come with several fixes to the new pointer input system, and I cannot reproduce the issue anymore with our pre-release build of 1.30.

So please let me know if the issue is not fixed with 1.30 as soon as it’s released. And I strongly suggest you give <https://www.jetbrains.com/help/fleet/connect-to-workspace.html|remote workspaces> a try as well. That should be a _lot_ smoother than Parsec.

Thank you for the fix. I'm looking forward to the upcoming release. I'll definitely check out remote workspaces.

I just tested this in the 1.30 release and it looks to be working now. Thanks for the fix!

Great to hear, thanks for letting me know!

While using this 1.30 version of Fleet for a bit, the one thing I've noticed is that a double tap drag gesture on the track pad, which usually behaves like a mouse click and drag, for some reason often behaves like a right-click event in Fleet. For example, if I want to drag a file tab, it will often open the context menu instead. It's about 50/50 between whether it drags or right-clicks.

I just tested again with a real mouse and it's the same behavior. So it's the actual click and drag event that for some reason comes through as a right-click, but not always.

Oh, Parsec seems to be really unreliable with its mouse events… What you’re seeing is the result of another issue which will be fixed in 1.31: <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/FL-24318|FL-24318> Resizing one Fleet window causes right click menu to appear in the second

In the meanwhile, I can only recommend you try remote development again. Have you given it a shot?