Bug#500231: mouse (buttons) not properly working in gnome

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Fri Sep 26 14:13:24 UTC 2008


reassign 500228 xserver-xorg
reassign 500231 xserver-xorg
forcemerge 500228 500231
thanks

Le vendredi 26 septembre 2008 à 14:21 +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld a
écrit :
> I'm not exactly sure if this is the right package to report the bug
> against, so please reassign if appropriate.
> 
> The problem is as following:
> In GNOME my mouse is not working properly. It seems that single-clicking
> always results in a double-click. Because of that I need to keep the
> mouse button clicked in order to access the menus and to not do things I
> don't want to do, when using the desktop context menu. Changing the
> double-click-interval in both possible directions did not help in any
> way.
> 
> The problem is specific to GNOME, because fluxbox appearently works the
> right way (tm).
> 
> I only gave this severity important, but I don't think that this is
> ready for this way. GNOME is effectively unusable if this problem
> exists.

This is an issue I’ve seen reported way too many times. The X upgrade
path is seriously broken when it comes to mouse configuration. In many
cases, it leads to the configuration having two mice configured, one
listening to e.g. /dev/psaux and one to /dev/input/mice. Events are
received twice, which is why the pointer goes twice too fast, and clicks
become double-clicks.

You can easily fix your X configuration, but the upgrade should really
not do that in the first place.

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