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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] (double)click
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:38:08
Message-Id: CAGK8UzDuWPC0rBeabEj6h4p2fKQz-iz_i_JZPqmppX0o2+vAMA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] (double)click by Alan McKinnon
1 And different evdev Versions react differently facing a bouncing Button
2 Am 05.11.2012 14:10 schrieb "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>:
3
4 > On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:53:51 +0100
5 > "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at> wrote:
6 >
7 > >
8 > > I face an annoying behavior on my main workstation and I can't spot
9 > > it, so maybe you guys have an idea.
10 > >
11 > > My mouse behaves a bit strange, for example in thunderbird.
12 > >
13 > > When I click a mail in the normal folder view, the expected behavior
14 > > is just to get the content displayed below. Instead it happens
15 > > *sometimes*/rather often, that it gets opened in a new tab, as if i
16 > > had clicked it twice.
17 >
18 >
19 > Maybe you did click twice at least from the computer's POV :-)
20 >
21 > test with a different mouse, it's quite common for mouse button
22 > switches to get dirty and bounce more than once when clicking them.
23 >
24 > If another mouse does the same, then we'd need to look at your software
25 > configs.
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 >
30 > >
31 > > Recompiled thunderbird, no change.
32 > >
33 > > The click also somehow doesn't really work in opera, for example.
34 > >
35 > > It marks things instead of clicking a link ... somehow strange.
36 > >
37 > > To me it seems that this has changed some times ago, maybe with some
38 > > Xorg-update or anything like that.
39 > >
40 > > Is
41 > >
42 > > INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"
43 > >
44 > > still OK for a simple USB mouse?
45 > >
46 > > This is ~amd64 .. xorg-server 1.13.0
47 > >
48 > > Thanks for any ideas on this, Stefan
49 > >
50 >
51 >
52 >
53 > --
54 > Alan McKinnon
55 > alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
56 >
57 >
58 >

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