Double click mouse issue

General system Newbie
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i am facing error with mouse, i clicked 1 time but worked 2 time . its only sometime, i tried with 2 mouse same issue.
for example - i use onboard app for typing when i can’t reach keyboard. and i clicked ( C ) but showing ( CC )
and its same in all apps. if i do (double click) then its like ( triple click )

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  • Only with your mouse? Is your keyboard ok?
  • What is the connector USB or PS2?
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yes keyboard working good
connector USB

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I’ve experienced that before, because the switches inside the mouse went bad over time.

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Well, according to OP he has tried with 2 other mouses with the same issue. Might be the USB kernel driver faulty and detects or outputs 2 clicks for one.

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Which DE?
E.g. Xfce has a mouse setting app with which you can change the time between two clicks, and another somewhat related mouse setting.

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KDE plasma

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its can be true

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Hmm… looks like KDE has no such setting for the mouse, which is a bit of a surprise.
But I’m not a KDE user, so hopefully someone more familiar can help.

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Pudge

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That’s because KDE has defaulted to using libinput for a few years now; it used to use evdev, which has advanced mouse settings. You can get the old behavior back by doing the following:

Install the xf86-input-evdev package.

Create a drop-in file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-mouse-settings.conf

(the file doesn’t need the specific name 20-mouse-settings.conf, but it’s a good name :grin:)

The file should have the following content:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "evdev-mouse"
    MatchIsPointer "yes"
    Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Log out/log in for it to take effect (you may have to reboot, but I think logging out should work fine).

And now you will have advanced settings for the mouse:

mouse_evdev
mouse_evdev1246×799 131 KB

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Thanks! :+1:
That’s probably useful for the OP.

@Pudge
Thanks for that too! I also have an issue (unrelated to the topic) with my old mouse, your idea might help.

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followed your all step , but i can’t found mouse - Advanced settings

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Paste the output of:

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-mouse-settings.conf

and:

pacman -Qi xf86-input-evdev

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image711×479 52.1 KB

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You did not create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-mouse-settings.conf as instructed.

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image

but same

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I have no idea why the cat command says that there is “No such file or directory,” but something is wrong there. :man_shrugging:

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fixed this one. next step?

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Log out, and log in.