On Tue 16 Apr 2024 at 01:20:03 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 16/4/24 00:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > > On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > > For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies > > > > > > of the > > > > > > gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 > > > > > > separate > > > > > > workspaces, and both appear to work for some definition of working, > > > > > > but > > > > > > quitting one actually quits both. > > > > > > > > > > How do you launch it? Are you clicking something? Are you > > > > > DOUBLE-clicking > > > > > something? > > > > > > > > > A single click on the name from the internet section of the xfce menu. > > > > I'm wondering whether Gene's mouse might be physically failing, and > > sending multiple click events when he presses the button once. This > > is one of the possible failure modes for mouse buttons. > > > > > Try running "thunderbird" from a terminal emulator and see what happens. > > > > Yes, that's a reasonable thing to try. > > > > To see whether the mouse button might be misbehaving, Gene could try > > running xev, and slowly clicking the (left) mouse button inside the > > xev window. There should be exactly one press event, and one release > > event, each time the button is clicked, regardless of how long it's > I think that, from memory, a utility for adjusting the mouse click > speed, also is available, for adjusting the mouse click speed.
I don't think double-click speed can be used to debounce the mouse button, because it lengthens the time interval that two clicks are interpreted as a double-click. It can't turn two quick clicks into a single click. I have a mouse that can turn one long press into two clicks: what's happening is that the wire loses continuity for a moment. I can see the xconsole logging a "New" USB device being connected, as it occurs. When it's bad, moving the mouse produces a stream of such logs. But I would recommend Gene start tbird from a command line, to distinguish a tbird configuration fault from a menu action fault. Cheers, David.
