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Bug 629782 - Strange mouse button/click behaviour
Summary: Strange mouse button/click behaviour
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2017-09-03 16:03 UTC by Porcupine of the Moon
Modified: 2017-09-04 12:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Porcupine of the Moon 2017-09-03 16:03:53 UTC
Dear all, 

since several weeks my system is behaving strangely on USB-mouse button events:

First example:
Very often a single left or right click behaves like a double click. I.e. if I right click for a context menu, very often the first entry gets clicked as well, what is very annoying. 

Second example: 
If I left click on the play button of a music player it directly pauses since it is received as a double click.

Third example: 
If I resize a window by holding down the left button on the window edge and move the mouse, after a short distance, the mouse releases the window edge and the resizing stops. 
Same behaviour if I select text in a document. After selecting several words or sentences the mouse button releases for a very short time. The previously selected text is not selected anymore and it continues selecting the text after this event.

I don't know which package is responsible for this bug. I don't believe that my mouse button is broken, since it shows the same behaviour for both the left and the right button. The examples above are not related to a specific software. I observed this behaviour in both xfce 4.12 and mate 1.12-r1. I use x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.9.2 and x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.3.

Help is appreciated. If I can provide further information please let me know.
Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2017-09-04 09:59:13 UTC
It is sad to read that you have problems with the software. The situation seems to be a bit more complicate and requires some analysis.
We can not help you efficiently via bug tracker. The bug tracker aims rather on specific problems in .ebuilds and less on individual systems. 

I have had very good experience on the gentoo IRC [1] with questions like this. Of course there are also forums and mailing lists [2,3].
I hope you understand, that I will close the bug here therefore and wish you good luck on one of the mentioned channels [4].
Please reopen the ticket in order to provide an indication for an specific error in an ebuild or any gentoo related product.

[1] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/irc-channels/
[2] https://forums.gentoo.org/
[3] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/all-lists.html
[4] https://www.gentoo.org/support/