Mouse started double clicking on a single click

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 06 August 2013 20:02:17 Don Parsons did opine:

> I am using fully updated ubuntu 12.04. My mouse has suddenly become
> supersensitive. Unless one handles it very carefully a single click
> results in double or triple clicking.
> Anyone know the cause and a cure?
> Thanks
> Don Parsons

More than likely its the mouse.  The switch is either getting funkity, or 
has cracked its solder where its attached to the board, so you get one 
closure when you press the button, but it over travels & breaks the 
circuit, then when you release, the solder joint makes connection again, 
which is the second click to the software, and finally the switch opens, 
completing making one button push into 2 clicks.

If you know somebody really good with a soldering iron, its fixable but may 
need a new switch.  Barring that, go get a fresh mouse.  But I'd advise 
steering a wide path around those mice with a touchpad in place of the 
scroll wheel.  I have one and will never buy another.  It has yet to do 
what my finger sliding on it tell it to do.

Also they are all optical now, so pick it up and look to see where on the 
bottom the optical unit is.  If its near the back of the mouse, under your 
palm, you will never get the motions you expect, it needs to be near the 
front of the mouse, under your fingertips to work well for most folks.  
Unforch, the mouse makers have discovered that, the $15 one is crap because 
of that, and they want another $75 for the exact same electronics but with 
the "eye" where it really belongs.

I have a selected piece of white ash to be made into a club to beat 
somebody over the head with, if I could ever figure who to beat for maximum 
effect. No use wasting a perfectly good beatdown on a secretary. ;p)

Or maybe I'm just a crotchety old C.E.T.

Cheers, Gene
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