How to set the single click speed?

[Bret Busby]

On 21/01/2016, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 January 2016 at 10:31, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I shall be astonished if this is not a hardware problem with keyboard
>> and/or mouse.
>
>
> I'm with Colin on this one.
>
> Folks, you all sound to me like you have faults or problems with your
> pointing devices.
>
> They do eventually wear out, you know. They're machines with moving
> parts. Even optical mice need regular cleaning and some parts are
> inaccessible so they need replacement, whereas mechanical ones can be
> disassembled, cleaned, reassembled and actually used for longer -- if
> nothing breaks.
>

Happens with different meeces on different computers, and, with brand
new meeces.

To me, it appears to be a problem with the drivers, and, the lack of
configurability (if that is a valid word).

These are problems that have started to occur in the later versions of
the operating systems, like that $%^$#@@#% in MS Windows >=8, where,
as the pointer gets close to the edge of the screen, the system goes
rabid, and, when typing in text, in a GUI editing facility, whether in
a GUI email application, or an online form, the text is inserted at
various locations at random, and, sometimes, several hours of work,
suddenly gets deleted, and, using GUI's gets prohibitively difficult,
like the way that it went with the GNOME deformity (when the
functionality of GNOME 2 was abandoned, for the hindrance that is
GNOME >=3). And, yes, I have switched to UbuntuMATE, as the only
usable operating system. But, unfortunately, the malignancies appear
to have started to invade UbuntuMATE. I should probably not have
upgraded the system to the latest version, and should probably have
sought to stay with something like v14.04 or earlier (but I think that
14.04, was the first version of UbuntuMATE, albeit an unofficial
version).

Unfortunately, computing now seems to come down to the question of
whether a user wants (relative) security, by keeping the system
updated (and I have today, seen a CERT advisory for the Linux kernel,
which is, I think, the first time that I have seen a CERT advisory for
the Linux kernel, in however many years, I have been subscribed to the
CERT advisories), or, wants functionality and usability.

I suppose that the increasing difficulty in using the hardware, and,
the increasing hostility toward users, that is occurring in computing,
comes under the "We no longer accept that defects exist - we now refer
to such things as enhancements and new features".

And, in the meantime, computer meeces, like most modern products, are
becoming increasingly unreliable, and, being and doing anything except
what the user wants, for the most part.

-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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 you'll know what the answer means."
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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
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 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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