On 5/13/05, Sharon Kimble <skimble04@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My new mouse (a gembird 2 button, 1 wheel. It has a little round green plug > which plugs into the mouse port on the back of my machine.) is too > enthusiastic! It is set up to double-click to open programs from icons, but > frequently it opens Konqueror from its side panel as two instances, instead > of the required one. > > When reading emails in KMail, it frequently jumps through one mail when I use > the arrow button to move to the next unread message, decreases the email > count by two, and marks the jumped-through email as being read ........ > although I haven't read it! > > And when spell-checking an email, its also jumping through two corrections and > marking them both as corrected, even if the middle one is wrong! > > I've also found that when moving between the desktops using the mouse-wheel, > it frequently goes the wrong way before reversing direction and going to the > right desktop! > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf shows;- > ======== > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > EndSection > ======== > > I've tried googling for an answer (using the search term 'mouse too fast on > fedora core 3') but didn't find anything which seemed useful. > > Can anyone help me to slow it down and get it working properly please? > > Hopefully, thanks > Sharon. > -- Hi Sharon, Try: Control Center --> Peripherals --> Mouse --> Advanced There's a control for the double click interval there. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gustavo Seabra Graduate Student Chemistry Dept. Kansas State University Registered Linux user number 381680 Say NO! to software patents: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If at first you don't succeed... ...skydiving is not for you.
