On Fri, 24 May 2013, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 05/24/2013 10:01 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I am running Debian 6, with GNOME 2.30.2 (I think; when I select Help->
About, with a GNOME application, that is the version number shown).
I have recently noticed a problem, with uncontrollable double (or
multiple) mouse clicks, when a single click should be occurring, causing
multiple problems.
In the System -> Preferences -> Mouse configuration setting utility, is
an option for adjusting the timeout for mouse double clicks, but,
apparently not a means of adjusting (in this case, lowering) the
sensitivity, or, increasing the lag time (?) between clicks, which could
(would) force the system to wait a longer (if so set) time for
registering a double click; for example, adjusting a setting, so that
the system would wait for 1/10 second, or, 1/2 second, before
registering a double click, so that, if a user does not get the finger
off the mouse button within a thousandth of a second, a double click is
not registered.
Can this parameter be adjusted, so that a user is required to distinctly
press the mouse button twice, after a set time, eg, 1/2 second, before a
double click is registered, and, if it can be adjusted, how can it be
adjusted?
Thank you in anticipation.
Brett
Take a look at the manual page for gpm.conf. It might take some
experimenting but that is what I use to control the mouse. Note
that I do not run Gnome so your mileage may vary.
HTH
--
Wayne
Hello.
In searching, I found
http://csurs7.csr.uky.edu/cgi-bin/man/man2html?gpm.conf+5
and
http://csurs7.csr.uky.edu/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+gpm
and the second one has
"
SEE ALSO
gpm-types(7) Description of current pointer types supported by gpm
The info file about `gpm', which gives more complete information and
explains how to write a gpm client.
"
In trying to finmd what I could from my sytem, I tried the following,
with the results displayed;
"
:~$ info gpm
(no responce displayed)
$ help gpm
bash: help: no help topics match `gpm'. Try `help help' or `man -k gpm'
or `info gpm'.
$ man gpm
No manual entry for gpm
$ man gpm.conf
No manual entry for gpm.conf
"
I could not find the information needed.
I assume (because it is not explained in the online reference cited
above, at uky.edu for gpm.conf) that the particular parameter that needs
to be adjusted, is the sampling parameter.
I do not know, but it is no more than a guess.
In the Sobell books that I have, including "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu
Linux", I can not find how to do what I need; the "Practical Guide to
Ubuntu Linux", does not include (that I was able to find) reference to
gpm.conf, but, instead, referred to the GUI application for configuring
the mouse driver, which allows for setting the double click timeout,
but, not for setting a delay time so as to cause a user to double click,
to get a double click, rather than double clicks inadvertently resulting
from single clicks.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
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you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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