Mouse button debouncing

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 19 August 2013, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> I have a Logitech Bluetooth mouse which I'm fairly sure has a hardware
> problem. The left button frequently issues two click events in rapid
> succession when pressed only once.

Has it always been that way?

I've got a mouse that's forever running off and crashing onto the floor.
Of course, it always crashes upside down, and smashes a button on the
floor.  I've resoldered it several times, and that fixes it until the
next accident.  I just don't see the point in forking out $30 for
another mouse, that will probably be even worse (the build quality seems
awful, these days), and still subject to being destroyed by running off
the work surface.

You could have a mouse that's always had a fault, for the same reason
(bad soldering), and didn't need the sort of abuse mine gets to bring
such a fault to the fore.

> Is there a way to tell X that two such events in under some threshold
> should count as one?

Doesn't the double-click-speed mouse preference do anything useful?

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