single mouse click interpreted as a double click (again)

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Tue Jun 22 10:31:59 PDT 2010


Done:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28673

I have added a little bit of info on there: these extra clicks happen
more often on some machines than others... no idea why.

Antoine


On 06/21/2010 07:05 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 04:40:44PM +0700, Antoine Martin wrote:
>> On 06/18/2010 10:35 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:48:49AM +0700, Antoine Martin wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Since a recent update of F13 (which may have caused it), I'm having
>>>> monumental problems with the mouse: pretty much every click is
>>>> interpreted as multiple clicks.
>>>>
>>>> I tried running xev to see what's being received by the X server and
>>>> anything but the fastest of clicks will generate many:
>>>> $ xev | grep Button
>>>> ButtonPress event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x6200001,
>>>> ButtonRelease event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x6200001,
>>>> ButtonPress event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x6200001,
>>>>
>>>> And if I move the mouse around whilst holding it down it is even worse
>>>> and generates dozens of clicks!
>>>>
>>>> I found some previous references to this problem, but no solution has
>>>> worked for me:
>>>> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2009-01/msg00836.html
>>>> Suggested:
>>>> Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"
>>>>
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/196711
>>>> Suggested:
>>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>>  Identifier	"CorePointer"
>>>>  Driver	 "mouse"
>>>> EndSection
>>>>
>>>> Any help will be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> what's the output of xinput --list?
>> ⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
>> ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
>> ⎜   ↳ CorePointer                             	id=6	[slave  pointer  (2)]
>> ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
>>     ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
>>     ↳ <default keyboard>                      	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
>>
>>> previous bugs were caused by devices being added multiple times, judging by
>>> your log this is not the case here.
>> Yes, I think that's what the "AutoAddDevices off" is supposed to
>> prevent, right?
> 
> well, yes. AAD turns off hotplugging though I thought we've by now handled
> all the corner cases that lead to duplicate devices. the xinput output also
> suggests that it's working.
> 
> don't know what's wrong with your specific configuration tbh, I think it's
> best if you file a bugreport and attach your log, xorg.conf and whatever
> else might be of interest. feel free to assign it to me.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Peter



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