Re: click-doubling
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 12:51, Thomas Peri wrote:
> Update: I just tried out another mouse that I had forgotten I had, and
> it within five or six clicks, the same thing happened. So it's not a
> problem with the mouse.
>
> Thomas Peri wrote:
> > I've been having a strange problem since I installed debian (woody) on
> > my G4 a few weeks ago. Now and then (several times a day), I'll
> > single-click on something, and it's as if I've double-clicked.
> >
> > It happens in all programs. Here's a small sampling of all the things
> > that happen because of this:
> >
> > 1) sometimes in Mozilla, I'll click "reply" or "compose",
> > and two message windows will appear.
> > 2) sometimes I'll click on a tool in Gimp, and the "tool
> > options" window will appear, as if I had double-clicked.
> > 3) sometimes I'll click on a word in an editor, and
> > instead of placing an insertion point where I click,
> > it selects the entire word
> > 4) It even happens with my fluxbox menu (things open twice
> > sometimes), which I find especially strange, since that
> > menu disappears when you select something.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this behavior? I'd say it's the mouse, except for
> > the fact that it happens in the fluxbox menu, and the fact that it
> > doesn't happen in either of my MacOSes.
I haven't seen this; what's your mouse configuration, what do the kernel
and X server say about the mouse, etc. ?
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