strange double-click

[Paul Cartwright]

On 01/10/2015 02:35 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
> On 9 January 2015 at 15:27, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/09/2015 08:21 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 08:19 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>>> I now have an issue, many days now, not sure when it started..
>>>> sometimes, when I SINGLE-click, it acts like a double-click. For
>>>> instance, I click REPLY, and 2 reply windows open. other times it does
>>>> similar actions, like a double-click, but I KNOW I am not, and I even
>>>> turned down the double-click timing.. running fed 21 AMD_64..
>>> Switch bounce in the mouse? Try a different one to see what happens.
>>>
>>> Also, you don't mention which desktop this is, which could be important.
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>> I am using a bluetooth mouse/keyboard combo, Logitech. I just switched
>> to my older Dell USB mouse, that came with the computer.. no
>> double-click issue... may be a battery issue with the bluetooth mouse..
>> not sure what else it could be.
>>
> That single-click-causing-double-click issue seems to be common with
> some Logitech mice; I've had a Logitech Mx Anywhere that started
> developing that problem. According to this topic[1] the problem is
> with the left button microswitch, on the first page of that forum
> topic someone from Logitech posted a way to "fix" the issue, but it
> doesn't work 100%.
>
> Later on in the same topic[2] someone posted that he'd used WD40 on
> the microswitch... (I think that might work, as I used a similar
> method albeit with a few changes, Axe body spray instead of WD40, on
> the left/right bumper microswitches in my Xbox controller (and people
> spray that stuff on their skin..).
>
> [1] http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Mice-and-Pointing-Devices/Performance-MX-mouse-double-clicking/td-p/591328
>
> [2]http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Mice-and-Pointing-Devices/Performance-MX-mouse-double-clicking/m-p/1122117/highlight/true#M52461
>
wow, this seems wide-spread... awesome!I'll see if that first method
helps... not sure I want to take anything apart..

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