How to set the single click speed?

[Jim Byrnes]

On 01/20/2016 01:08 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On 01/20/2016 09:16 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 20 January 2016 at 14:29, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> On 01/20/2016 01:24 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 19 January 2016 at 18:19, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I moved from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and find I have trouble getting
>>>>> drop
>>>>> down
>>>>> menus in the title bar to drop down.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I click on a menu as I normally do it just flashes briefly but does
>>>>> not
>>>>> drop down.  To get it to drop down I must tap and release the
>>>>> button very
>>>>> rapidly.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does the mouse behave perfectly in all other situations?
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes it does. If for example I click on toolbar it works fine.
>>>
>>> After thinking about this some more, I think I asked the wrong
>>> question. I
>>> think I should have been focusing on how the menus received a mouse
>>> click,
>>> because I realized I control the speed of the click by how I use it.
>>
>> I don't think it is to do with speed of mouse click.  The mouse should
>> send one event when you click and another when you release.  I wonder
>> whether it is sending additional click operations or something along
>> those lines.  In a terminal run
>> xev
>> that will open a little window and show you events in the terminal
>> itself.  Move the mouse over the little window then click the mouse
>> button.  Each time you click you should see a down event and then a
>> release event when you let go.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> Here are the results for button push and release.  There was only one of
> each of the events logged.
>
> ConfigureNotify event, serial 37, synthetic YES, window 0x4e00001,
>      event 0x4e00001, window 0x4e00001, (1953,39), width 178, height 178,
>      border_width 0, above 0x0, override NO
>
> FocusIn event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
>      mode NotifyNormal, detail NotifyNonlinear
>
> KeymapNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
>      keys:  4294967180 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>    0   0
>             0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>
> EnterNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
>      root 0x28c, subw 0x4e00002, time 10885795, (32,24), root:(1985,63),
>      mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyVirtual, same_screen YES,
>      focus YES, state 272
>
> KeymapNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
>      keys:  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>             0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>
> ButtonPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
>      root 0x28c, subw 0x4e00002, time 10885766, (32,24), root:(1985,63),
>      state 0x10, button 1, same_screen YES
>
> EnterNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
>      root 0x28c, subw 0x0, time 10885795, (32,24), root:(1985,63),
>      mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyInferior, same_screen YES,
>      focus YES, state 272
>
> KeymapNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
>      keys:  4294967180 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>    0   0
>             0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>
> PropertyNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
>      atom 0x136 (_NET_WM_STATE), time 10885808, state PropertyNewValue
>
> ButtonRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
>      root 0x28c, subw 0x4e00002, time 10885894, (32,24), root:(1985,63),
>      state 0x110, button 1, same_screen YES
>
> LeaveNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
>      root 0x28c, subw 0x0, time 10885894, (32,24), root:(1985,63),
>      mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyInferior, same_screen YES,
>      focus YES, state 16
>
> After doing some more searching I found that people using Eclispse were
> have problems with menus. The fix was to start it like this:
>
> env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= eclipse
>
> I tried it with gedit and it worked, but when I tried it with Firefox
> and Thunderbird it had no effect.

Turns out that gedit works without doing this.

> What did fix it was turning global menus on in the panel, but I hate
> global menus.  I had them turned off with no ill effects in 12.04. I
> guess I will have to keep experimenting to find a solution.
>
> Thanks,  Jim
>
>

Some more info:

Programs that have their own menu bar, ie do not display menus in the 
title bar, do not have this problem. Examples are: gEdit, Terminal and 
Unsettings.

The programs that have the problem, display the menus in the title bar.
Examples are: Firefox, thunderbird and libreoffice. If I place the mouse 
pointer on a menu in these programs and keep the button pressed down the 
pointer turns into a hand.  It does not do that on the programs I 
mentioned in the previous paragraph.

Regards,  Jim