Running latest Slack64-current and latest Plasma5. After the updates today, 3.3.2020 a very annoying problem has surfaced. In Chromium (Eric's latest), FF-73.0.1 or Thunderbird when I click on a link, bookmark, etc. more often than not a popup will appear offering me a number of choices such as "Open in New Tab", Open in new window, Open in private window, etc. but the link or bookmark doesn't open. If I click again sometimes I get the same popup and sometimes the link opens. In TB when I click on a mail to open it again a popup appears instead of opening the mail and it requires two to three clicks to get the mail open and not see the popup. Anyone else seeing this behavior? Any fixes to suggest? This is really getting to be a major pain.

What updates are you talking about? The latest update for Slackware64-current was March 2, not March 3. I'm fully up-to-date and not experiencing this behavior. I also don't see anything recently in the ChangeLog that seems like it would be related.

Something is screwed up on your computer.

Weiss ich, saw them on 3.3 this morning.

LOL Eric, wouldn't be the first time.

Will keep looking.

Okay, but that was a minor point. I was wondering which updates you actually installed this morning. Was it just the updates that came in yesterday?

Sounds to me like something is wrong with.... wait for it, drum roll... your mouse :-)

Sounds like it's right clicking.

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I can confirm this behavior too in Thunderbird.


This is true. It's getting what it thinks is a right-click. But it's odd that I didn't accidentally trigger it before. Either something changed in t-bird, something changed in libinput, or I'm slouching.

Maybe libevdev? That was updated yesterday.

Well, if two people are having it, chances are it's not a stuck mouse button or mis-clicking behaviour.

libinput was last Thursday though. I suppose X through libevdev could be mis-detecting the device. It goes through a spiel "device is a keyboard" or "device is a pointer" and if it's not "removing device" oruntil it hits on the right one.

A clue might be in Xorg.0.log

Well, looks like TheRealGrogan nailed it in my case. Just happened to have a new mouse, still in the box. Connected that and since then no problem at all. The popups had been appearing at almost 90% of my mouse clicks and now it is down to 0. Thanks for the suggestion. I've gone thru many mice over the decades but never had this manifestation show up. Will mark this as solved unless it reappears in the near future.

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Nice catch by TheRealGrogan.

Since this turned out to be a strange mouse problem, I’ll add another one I’ve run into a couple of times: mice that start double clicking when you single click.

It turns out that it was just wear (and not one of the many other possible causes on the internet.) From what I gathered, it was the spring wearing, not plastic. I’ve taken a couple apart and only managed temporary fixes after adjusting the spring.

TKS

Yeah, I see shit like that often. "My computer is going crazy!" and it might not click (no pun intended) with how they are describing it. There's a bias to blame software, especially when there's coincidence.

Probably the funniest thing I ever had was "My computer is possessed with a virus!", this would have been around 2002, back in the Windows XP days. Swearing was appearing in the lady's documents as she was typing. At first I was all "WTF" as the computer didn't seem infected, until I actually saw (and heard) it happen. She had "Dragon Naturally Speaking" enabled and misconfigured, a microphone plugged in, and her family swore a lot :-)

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It may be worthy of note that mouse behavior is affected by more than one protocol/service these days. They are setup in a hierarchy and it is my understanding (however rudimentary) that these days "xinput" has the highest level of priority. While this LQ "How To" is labeled "set up gaming mouse" it does apply to all mice and could be helpful in locking down the behavior anyone finds most desirable for whatever purpose, so here's the link -----

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Set_up_Gaming_Mouse

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All I can contribute is that I have definitely experienced this.

Check the hardware layer first. Always.

My mother's wireless mouse once stopped working, and she couldn't figure why. I found out quickly that the AAA battery inside was spent. Checking the hardware first, got the fix in less than 10 minutes. Countless others have learned the same thing, all over the Internet.