[NBLUG/talk] Overly Sensitive Mouse /Debian Sarge 2.6

[orsini]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 08:17:47AM -0700, troy wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:11:21PM -0700, orsini wrote:
> > Today I installed Debain Sarge at work (with the slick new installer)
> > and mostly everything when smooth. The only problem is that my mouse 
> > (M$ Trackball Explorer) has become a bit touchy. When I click to open 
> > a terminal, it will pop open two. At first I thought this was some 
> > tripped out configuration (XFree86conf) but then I noticed that if I 
> > very carefully click on a launch icon, I can almost ensure that only 
> > one 'thing' opens as I intended with each click.
> > 
> > Gnome has a setting in 'Mouse Preferences' called Sensitivity which 
> > seems to have something to do with this touchiness (I think) but it
> > is listed under 'Speed' which make me a little confused about what it
> > is supposed to adjust. So, what is it that I'm debugging here. Is it 
> > a 2.6 kernel thing, a XFree86 thing, a Gnome thing? Just not sure 
> > where to poke.
> 
> Doesn't the gnome mouse capplet have a setting for "double click
> sensitivity" as well ?  You might not have that option as I'm not sure
> that gnome 2.6 has fully made its way into sarge yet.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that 'speed' setting you're playing with only affects
> how quickly the mouse pointer moves across the screen.
> 
> You could also check that it's using the correct pointer device in
> XF86Config.
> 
> > Taking a random guess, I think it has something to do with the 2.6
> > kernel. (Who knows why I chose 'linux26' when I just monkey with text
> > files all day but that's what I did.)
> 
> I like 2.6.  2.4 needed a handful of patches before it was anywhere near
> as responsive.

Welp, here's what I think: I'm running a simular debian at home with the same
usb mouse. The difference is home has Gnome 2.4 and work has (or... had) 2.6.1.
But, I'm just going to pretend I never even noticed this problem and hope it 
never happens again. :)