lucid lynx mouse highlighting drag

johnh10000 · 06-14-2010, 01:49 PM

Hi, after an update, the mouse, when trying to highlighting something on say a web page, by holding down the left button and draging, sometimes works, normally, and other times, I have to click once, I get a word, click again, and the whole line.

Now I use Audiacity a lot, and this behaviour, is intolerable. I have looked in System ->Preferences ->Mouse and can not find anything usefull.

Any ideas as to how to get my mouse back to normal, please.

artichoke · 06-15-2010, 05:04 AM

What you describe is what should happen with a double click.

Your Double-Click Timeout may be too long.

Also, have a look at the Accessibility tab under System ->Preferences ->Mouse and see if "Trigger secondary click by holding down the primary button" is ticked. You want this to be unticked.

johnh10000 · 06-15-2010, 06:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by artichoke

What you describe is what should happen with a double click.

Your Double-Click Timeout may be too long.

Also, have a look at the Accessibility tab under System ->Preferences ->Mouse and see if "Trigger secondary click by holding down the primary button" is ticked. You want this to be unticked.

In Lucid its call Assitive Technologies, bit its not checked.

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artichoke · 06-16-2010, 02:59 AM

Your screenshots look fine to me.

Have a look at your updates history (file > History in Synaptic) and see if there is a recent update that would have affected your mouse.

Some possibilities are:
mousetweaks
xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse

You could reinstall these if you have no other success.

Don't forget to try another mouse to see if it is a hardware problem.