Traxmaker weirdness

I don't really know what to make of this experience.  I was messing with Traxmaker a couple of days ago, previously mentioned here:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/08/traxmaker.html

using it for a modification to a simple circuit board, a variation of this failed kit idea:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/06/kit-failure.html

For some reason I couldn't bring up the floating menu with a right click - this makes it easy to modify an existing board to select a trace and change the width of a trace or to perform many other changes.

But all the right clicking on the mouse pad did nothing.  Now I didn't try it with an actual mouse or try it on a new PC - I was in a hurry so I just worked around the lack of the right click menu.

Today for the heck of it I retried Traxmaker and the right click worked fine:

a right click brought up the floating menu on the lower left

 

So what was the problem ?  Hardware ?  Software ?  Me ? (I hope it's not the last one :)  I hate it when stuff just automagically starts working again.  Probably yet another thing telling me to abandon this laptop !

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm