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  Mouse handling "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-26 12:19 +0200
    Re: Mouse handling Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-09-26 19:15 +0200
      Re: Mouse handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-09-26 10:47 -0700
        Re: Mouse handling Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-09-26 14:21 -0400
          Re: Mouse handling "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-28 13:55 +0200

#22094 — Mouse handling

Sometimes I click on a post, in the top panel that holds the list of 
posts, and instead or besides displaying the post in the bottom big 
panel, it also opens the post in a tab, as if I double clicked. But I 
didn't. Sometimes it opens the entire thread in many different tabs that 
I then have to close.

Can I configure somehow not to interpret single click as double clicks 
and do that tab opening? It is a nuisance.

Only happens in Thunderbird.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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#22095

Am 26.09.26 um 12:19 schrieb Carlos E.R.:
> Sometimes I click on a post, in the top panel that holds the list of 
> posts, and instead or besides displaying the post in the bottom big 
> panel, it also opens the post in a tab, as if I double clicked. But I 
> didn't. Sometimes it opens the entire thread in many different tabs that 
> I then have to close.
> 
> Can I configure somehow not to interpret single click as double clicks 
> and do that tab opening? It is a nuisance.

Use xev to check if your mouse is ok. The switches inside can fail and 
start to chatter, so a single "click" results in many of them.

You can then unsolder the old ones and replace them.

If that is not the issue, maybe the speed for double click is set to a 
bad value.

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Gruß
Marco

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#22096

Marco Moock wrote:
> Use xev to check if your mouse is ok. The switches inside can fail and 
> start to chatter, so a single "click" results in many of them.

Yeah.

He said:
> Only happens in Thunderbird. 

Sometimes what may seem to be a 'misleading' datapoint can be because 
the human-device interaction may be 'different' for one app vs another.

-- 
Mike Easter

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#22098

On Sat, 9/26/2026 1:47 PM, Mike Easter wrote:
> Marco Moock wrote:
>> Use xev to check if your mouse is ok. The switches inside can fail and start to chatter, so a single "click" results in many of them.
> 
> Yeah.
> 
> He said:
>> Only happens in Thunderbird. 
> 
> Sometimes what may seem to be a 'misleading' datapoint can be because the human-device interaction may be 'different' for one app vs another.
> 

There is a Gestures addon for Thunderbird.

All it would take, is for a dev to slide in a "short click"
versus "long click", to have introduced a Gesture into
an interface. Accessibility requirements, may preclude doing
things like that (the interface must be kept simple so
that a wide range of people can use it).

Some softwares, include a balloon dialog, the first time the
user triggers a gesture, in order to ensure the user is
informed of the interface change.

Other than that, softwares don't typically include a "gesture monitor"
so that the user can see a list of recently triggered events.
XEV is interested in raw "events" (key_down, key_up), rather than
in the interpretation of what a certain sequence might mean.

   Paul

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#22106

On 2026-09-26 20:21, Paul wrote:
> On Sat, 9/26/2026 1:47 PM, Mike Easter wrote:
>> Marco Moock wrote:
>>> Use xev to check if your mouse is ok. The switches inside can fail and start to chatter, so a single "click" results in many of them.
>>
>> Yeah.

Hardware is fine. Happens in more than one computer, and only in 
Thunderbird.

>>
>> He said:
>>> Only happens in Thunderbird.
>>
>> Sometimes what may seem to be a 'misleading' datapoint can be because the human-device interaction may be 'different' for one app vs another.
>>
> 
> There is a Gestures addon for Thunderbird.
> 
> All it would take, is for a dev to slide in a "short click"
> versus "long click", to have introduced a Gesture into
> an interface. Accessibility requirements, may preclude doing
> things like that (the interface must be kept simple so
> that a wide range of people can use it).
> 
> Some softwares, include a balloon dialog, the first time the
> user triggers a gesture, in order to ensure the user is
> informed of the interface change.
> 
> Other than that, softwares don't typically include a "gesture monitor"
> so that the user can see a list of recently triggered events.
> XEV is interested in raw "events" (key_down, key_up), rather than
> in the interpretation of what a certain sequence might mean.

Mmm.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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