On Fri, 2024-01-05 at 12:50 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote: > If you're talking about "Mouse & Touchpad" under Settings, "Single > Click" and "Double Click" both work with the left button, but neither > do anything with the middle button, though I'm not sure if they're > supposed to since I never used this before.
In various "mouse preferences" control panels on Linux there's a click- to-test section, where any mouse button you press over it will be detected, and it indicate that it noticed it. While it's intended for you to test out what your double-click speed time-out will be, it also serves as a way to test out each mouse button. I find that I have to replace wheel mice every now and then in trying environments where the mouse often gets knocked off the table, or where things fall on it. The wheel protudes and takes the brunt of any impact. Then the switch becomes unreliable, or more to the point, the soldering that attaches the switch to the circuitboard is damaged. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes you have to hammer it to get it work, sometimes one press becomes multiple. Dunno why mice always fall off and land upside down, it's like buttered toast... Kinda wishing the current mouse would fail - the rubber mouse wheel is aggravating my skin allergies. But it's hard to find any mice which don't rubber-coat the wheel. Ones with actual micro-switches, not tactile switches, are much better. Tactile switches are a lousy design with a very limited lifespan. You can see what the different types look like here: https://www.jaycar.com.au/spdt-250vac-5a-micro-switch/p/SM1050 https://www.jaycar.com.au/0-7mm-spst-micro-tactile-switch/p/SP0600 They're very *different* types of switch design. Though it can be hard to buy a mouse with a microswitch, as they often lie and call "tactile switches" "micro switches." Cable breaks are another common issue with mice, at the part where the cable exits the mouse body. It's combination of metal fatigue from all the movement, or getting knocked into things while you mouse around a cluttered desk. Then, as you move the mouse about there's a deluge of signal disconnects and reconnects, which upsets the hardware. I noticed PS/2 mice were really prone to erratic behaviour on extension leads (this was in the era of moving from desktop to tower cases, where the mice cables were often too short). I came to the conclusion there was a significant voltage drop across the tiny wiring inside the extension cable. I rarer, but not impossible, situation is static electricity damage. Whizzing a plastic object around some kinds of surfaces can build up a static charge. Electronics don't like that. -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 6.2.15-100.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu May 11 16:51:53 UTC 2023 x86_64 -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
