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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: tbird troubles
From:       gene heskett <gheskett () shentel ! net>
Date:       2024-04-15 19:40:06
Message-ID: f91a3276-15b2-4dcc-853f-c7591c6a1fc0 () shentel ! net
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On 4/15/24 14:24, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 16 Apr 2024 at 01:20:03 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 16/4/24 00:49, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, eben@gmx.us wrote:
>>>> On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote:
>>>>> On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
>>>>>>> For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the
>>>>>>> gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate
>>>>>>> workspaces, and both appear to work for some definition of working, but
>>>>>>> quitting one actually quits both.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do you launch it?  Are you clicking something?  Are you DOUBLE-clicking
>>>>>> something?
>>>>>>
>>>>> A single click on the name from the internet section of the xfce menu.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering whether Gene's mouse might be physically failing, and
>>> sending multiple click events when he presses the button once.  This
>>> is one of the possible failure modes for mouse buttons.
>>>
>>>> Try running "thunderbird" from a terminal emulator and see what happens.
>>>
>>> Yes, that's a reasonable thing to try.
>>>
>>> To see whether the mouse button might be misbehaving, Gene could try
>>> running xev, and slowly clicking the (left) mouse button inside the
>>> xev window.  There should be exactly one press event, and one release
>>> event, each time the button is clicked, regardless of how long it's
>> I think that, from memory, a utility for adjusting the mouse click
>> speed, also is available, for adjusting the mouse click speed.
> 
> I don't think double-click speed can be used to debounce the mouse
> button, because it lengthens the time interval that two clicks are
> interpreted as a double-click. It can't turn two quick clicks into
> a single click.
> 
> I have a mouse that can turn one long press into two clicks: what's
> happening is that the wire loses continuity for a moment. I can see
> the xconsole logging a "New" USB device being connected, as it occurs.
> When it's bad, moving the mouse produces a stream of such logs.
> 
> But I would recommend Gene start tbird from a command line, to
> distinguish a tbird configuration fault from a menu action fault.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 
I get exactly the same thing from a keyboard launch, David.  Thanks.
> .

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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