Ubuntu

Can only do double clicks

Bug #188387 reported by Thomas Novin
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Bug Description

I reinstalled my laptop to Hardy Alpha 4 and a few minutes after logging in the first time, I could not single click any longer. Every time I press a mouse button it's a double click.

I have a HP nc8430 laptop with an external Logitech, Inc. M-BJ69 Optical Wheel Mouse. My touchpad also fails to work properly.

I had an up-to-date install of Hardy before this install and then I didn't have this problem.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

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jask (jaskiern) wrote :

I am experiencing the same symptoms on Hardy Heron.

In my touchpad InputDevice Section of '/etc/X11/xorg.conf', I added an 'Option "CorePointer" and restarted GDM. The double-clicking issue stopped, both with my external mouse and touchpad. I removed and added the Option (restarting GDM each time) to make sure it was the providing the option was having the effect I was seeing. All together, my InputDevice section looks like:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
    Driver "synaptics"
    Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
    Option "CorePointer" # This added line removes the undesired double-clicking.
EndSection

I am attaching my complete 'xorg.conf'.

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Remove Me (remove-me) wrote :

Confirmed the workaround works for a regular desktop with USB mouse with synaptics driver _uninstalled_.
xorg (the server, mousedrv?) had /dev/input/mice opened twice!

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