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Re: Debian 6 query - how to adjust mouse double click sensitivity



On Sun, 26 May 2013, Bret Busby wrote:


On Sat, 25 May 2013, Wayne Topa wrote:


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Description: General Purpose Mouse interface
This package provides a daemon that captures mouse events when the system
console is active, and delivers events to applications through a library.
.
By default, the daemon provides a 'selection' mode, so that
cut-and-paste with the mouse works on the console just as it does
under X.


I think that that is pretty much consistent with what Brian had said; that gpm works for consoles, and not within GNOME or otherwise within xwindows.

I should have found that, when I had earlier, read the material that I found.

I could be wrong, but, that is my understanding of what the above says, in comparison with what Brian had said.

Interestingly enough, I appear to have not been having a problem with the mouse, in using consoles; when pasting into a console, for example, pasting text into a pine (or, now, more correctly, ellpine) message composition, or, into a gedit session, I have not encountered problems.

It is more when I select things in a GUI application, for example, selecting an option on a web site, within a web browser, or, selecting a directory within a GUI file browser (the former requiring a single click, and, the latter, requiring a double click, to open the directory) when, in clicking once, I end up with a double or multiple click, and, in double clicking, I end up with a mutiple click.



And, I have just checked, using Synaptic, and, gpm is not installed.

libgpm2 ( "General Purpose Mouse - shared library" ) is installed, however.

Funny - the cats here, do not share mouses, but, in Linux, mouses share libraries...

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Bret Busby
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