Question about (usb) mouse being confused about drag-n-drop...

[Philip Prindeville]

Torgeir Veimo wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 02:09 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>I'm seeing the following problem: when I depress and then release the
>>mouse left-button and then move the mouse without waiting, X
>>applications
>>sometimes get confused and believes that something is being dragged
>>(i.e.
>>that the movement started before the button-up event, not after it). 
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>Is this mainly with firefox? I think firefox does it's own handling of
>buttondown / buttonup vs buttonclicked events.
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I see it with Thunderbird and other places as well.

One person told me they don't see it when they take the KVM switch
out of the way.  Could the KVM be reordering mouse events or causing
them to be excessively delayed?

-Philip