How to set the single click speed?
Ernest Doub
hideserted at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 21:26:07 UTC 2016
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> Reading this thread it seems to me that you need to adjust the
>sensitivity< to the mouse, not the >mouse click speed<.
Regards
Ed
On the Mojave
>
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