[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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Title:
right click causes a random left click action immediatly
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Bug description:
When a right click brings up a menu in just about ANY application,
there is a semi-random chance it will immediately semi-randomly select
one of the choices as if it were left clicked. I suspect a mouse
driver is at fault. It happened to me most recently with the openbox
menu, logging me out twice in a row and rthen rebooting me the third
time around.
This is reported elsewhere on launchpad as a firefox 3.0 problem. It
most emphatically is NOT limited to firefox and most emphatically IS
current.. As in fully updated (as of 2013 October 29) Saucy. I
mistakenly posted in one of those threads, and got to thinking it
really ought to be posted under an appropriate title so the right
people will look at it. I couldn't find anything on this that didn't
incorrectly (assuming it is the same bug) describe it as a firefox
bug. So I'll paste what I posted there here, with a few edits. If a
mod wants to delete the other post or move this one, I have no
objection.
Still happening after all these years. /me sighs.
I confirm this is still happening on Saucy. I've never had any *buntu in
which it didn't happen. I suspect it is a mouse driver problem. Interesting
that someone also had it on xp. I suspect that may be a red herring though. It
is entirely possible that a xp or other windows has a similar problem and for a
similar reason. I've only experienced this on *buntus. Not on pclinuxos. Not on
Sabayon. Not on Salix. That could be coincidence, but I doubt it. It isn't just
firefox. I just had it on Saucy trying to use the openbox menu. 3 times in a
row. Twice it logged me out and the 3rd time it rebooted.
This a very lightweight system. Lighter than Lubuntu, lighter than
plain LXDE. I started with the 32 bit Saucy mini.iso and added xorg,
openbox, lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter, lxterminal, lxtask, firefox
24.0, 1 lxpanel with a clock, 7 launchers (or whatever LX chaps call
them), and a taskbar. I have the autostart (I forger which one, one of
the ones associated with login at any rate) set NOT to start pcmanfm
and draw a desktop. My "desktop" is merely a featureless gray, which
I'll change to green when I get around to it. When I want to look at
the ~/Desktop directory I do it with pcmanfm in detail view like I
view any other directory. I tweaked appearnce by editing the theme
files directly. In summary, it is about as light as a gui system can
be. My cpu is an AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 245 Processor and Ihave 4 gigs
of RAM. Nothing amazing but it certainly should be adequate for the
software in question. Everything is fully updated.
So, I suspect:
1 - There is a kind of quasi-randomness to this that makes it hard to
track down and leads people into spurious conclusions.
2 - While it is more likely to occur when some system resource,
probably cpu, is overstretched, it can still occur when load is quite
low. Firefox is probably associated with this a lot because it is a
bit of resource hog.
3 - This is probably a *buntu issue, or just possibly, a Debian issue.
Although I ran LMDE a while and I don't recall haveing it there. The
fellow who has it in xp probably experienced a different bug of the
same nature.
3 - It is most likely a mouse driver issue. Even if it isn't, it might
be easier to write a workaround into a mouse driver than to track the
actual problem. Could be as simple as making a right click equivalent
to right click and hold until a left click occurs.
4 - If there is a competition this has my vote for "most annoying *buntu bug
of all time".
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I hesitated to check the security box but I reasoned something that
influences things in a way basic to all gui interfaces and can cause
inadvertant choices to be made, and possibly not noticed, could quite
conceivably be a security issue. For example, my most recent experience of this
bug was on the openbox menu. What it I had an entry "sudo ufw disable" and had
that command on the no-password list in my sudoers file? Or if it happened in
settiny options options on some security related software?
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Redundant, but since you asked:
~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
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BTW, I'm not sure how this is going to post my "name". If it seems a tad
belligerent, it is because I was getting very frustrated trying to create a
launchpad account, and it isn't directed at anyone here. I'll be glad to change
it if someone wants me to and points out how to. Besides, it's legitimate name
- my father was Korean and my mother was a command interpreter. ;)
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