[25702] in Hotline Meeting
slightly flaky mouse on m66-080-10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nocturne@MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 23 18:28:36 1994
From: nocturne@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 18:28:31 -0500
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
I have been observing odd behavior which suggests that the left mouse-button
on this workstation (m66-080-10) is somewhat flaky, and tends to bounce.
I ran this command:
xev | perl -ne '$|=1;print if /Button/'
Some of the time, the result of a single button-click was a series of
press/release pairs like this:
ButtonPress event, serial 14, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
ButtonRelease event, serial 14, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
However, once, I got a series of events like this:
ButtonPress event, serial 14, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
ButtonPress event, serial 14, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
ButtonRelease event, serial 14, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
ButtonRelease event, serial 14, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
and, the rest of the time I was repeatedly found that a single
left-mouse-button-click was generating multiple pairs of Press/Release
events.
This is not sufficiently annoying to prevent me from getting my work done,
but it is often annoying and could easily be a critical problem in
applications which depend heavily on the left mouse button....
- Eric
