[Cialug] Mouse Clicker Gone Wild

[Todd Walton]

I have this problem with my mouse in Linux.  I don't know if it's the
mouse or if it's Linux, because I only use this mouse in Linux.  But
I've swapped out the mouse a couple of times and still have the
problem, and I don't have this problem when in Windows.

What happens is that a single physical click on the mouse ends up
being two clicks on the computer.  If I want to select a file in
Nautilus, I'll end up double clicking and opening it.  If I click a
link in a web page it'll click the link and then immediately click
whatever's below the mouse pointer on the next page.  Or I'll select a
menu in an application and it'll open it and then immediately close
it, because I've "clicked" again.

Is this something funny with X?  Is there a way to introduce a short
pause in accepting mouse input after a click?  I think I could deal
with the annoyances there, in exchange for getting rid of the
click-click.

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Todd