And different evdev Versions react differently facing a bouncing Button
 Am 05.11.2012 14:10 schrieb "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>:

> On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:53:51 +0100
> "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at> wrote:
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> >
> > I face an annoying behavior on my main workstation and I can't spot
> > it, so maybe you guys have an idea.
> >
> > My mouse behaves a bit strange, for example in thunderbird.
> >
> > When I click a mail in the normal folder view, the expected behavior
> > is just to get the content displayed below. Instead it happens
> > *sometimes*/rather often, that it gets opened in a new tab, as if i
> > had clicked it twice.
>
>
> Maybe you did click twice at least from the computer's POV :-)
>
> test with a different mouse, it's quite common for mouse button
> switches to get dirty and bounce more than once when clicking them.
>
> If another mouse does the same, then we'd need to look at your software
> configs.
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> >
> > Recompiled thunderbird, no change.
> >
> > The click also somehow doesn't really work in opera, for example.
> >
> > It marks things instead of clicking a link ... somehow strange.
> >
> > To me it seems that this has changed some times ago, maybe with some
> > Xorg-update or anything like that.
> >
> > Is
> >
> > INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"
> >
> > still OK for a simple USB mouse?
> >
> > This is ~amd64 .. xorg-server 1.13.0
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas on this, Stefan
> >
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> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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