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Re: tbird troubles

On 4/15/24 14:24, David Wright wrote:

On Tue 16 Apr 2024 at 01:20:03 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote:

On 16/4/24 00:49, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, eben@gmx.us wrote:

On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote:

On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:

For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the
gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate
workspaces, and both appear to work for some definition of working, but
quitting one actually quits both.


How do you launch it?  Are you clicking something?  Are you DOUBLE-clicking
something?


A single click on the name from the internet section of the xfce menu.


I'm wondering whether Gene's mouse might be physically failing, and
sending multiple click events when he presses the button once.  This
is one of the possible failure modes for mouse buttons.


Try running "thunderbird" from a terminal emulator and see what happens.


Yes, that's a reasonable thing to try.

To see whether the mouse button might be misbehaving, Gene could try
running xev, and slowly clicking the (left) mouse button inside the
xev window.  There should be exactly one press event, and one release
event, each time the button is clicked, regardless of how long it's

I think that, from memory, a utility for adjusting the mouse click
speed, also is available, for adjusting the mouse click speed.


I don't think double-click speed can be used to debounce the mouse
button, because it lengthens the time interval that two clicks are
interpreted as a double-click. It can't turn two quick clicks into
a single click.

I have a mouse that can turn one long press into two clicks: what's
happening is that the wire loses continuity for a moment. I can see
the xconsole logging a "New" USB device being connected, as it occurs.
When it's bad, moving the mouse produces a stream of such logs.

But I would recommend Gene start tbird from a command line, to
distinguish a tbird configuration fault from a menu action fault.

Cheers,
David.


I get exactly the same thing from a keyboard launch, David.  Thanks.

.


Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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