[openbox] Minimal time between clicks to double click

[Mathias Dufresne]

Thank you both for your clear and detailed answers. I'm running now a
modified version 2.8.2 of evdev drivers as a test. This seems a really nice
option as evdev is responsible of any event sent to the system.

For information, I tried to clean my mouse's switches using (not too) high
pressure air flow and it seemed to help... during 2 hours.

Best regards,

mathias


2015-03-06 17:09 GMT+01:00 Mikael Magnusson <mikachu at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Paul G <paulg at perforge.net> wrote:
> > Mathias,
> >
> > What you are experiencing is called 'bouncing'. The switch for that
> > particular button is either worn out or dirty and is making intermittent
> > contact, so what appears like a [Press][Release] to you is actually sent
> as
> > [Press][Release][Press][Release]...[Press][Release]. Double clicks
> instead
> > of single clicks are just one part of the problem, interrupted dragging
> and
> > selection of text will be happening as well under these circumstances, so
> > simply introducing the setting you ask for is not going to be sufficient
> to
> > render your mouse fully usable again.
> >
> [...]
> >
> > I am unsure whether debouncing is possible to implement cleanly and
> > comprehensively in a window manager, quite apart from it being 3 steps
> down
> > the chain from where it ought to be implemented, but I'm not an expert
> on X
> > or window managers ;)
>
> Implementing something in openbox would only "fix" the issue in
> openbox, eg clicking on window decorations. Clicking inside any window
> would still get the double bounce event. You could in theory grab all
> mouse events inside windows too and send fake events after fixing them
> up, but we don't do that, and we cannot do it for programs that grab
> the mouse (games, gtk menus, etc).
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
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