[Cialug] Mouse Clicker Gone Wild

[Jim Asbille]

You may have your mouse set to single click. I have mine set that way and
even set Windows at work that way.

Open Nautilus and go to Edit==>Preferences and click the Behavior tab. See
if it is set to Single Click to Open Items.


Jim Asbille, MSM
registered Linux user number 388067

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On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Todd
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