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mouseman

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From: Outta nowhere

Registered: 2014-04-04

Posts: 298

Selecting with the mouse

I can't find anything about this but I got this simple but very annoying issue.

When I click in a program to bring it to the front it often selects a line or two because with the mouse click, the mouse moves a bit on my desk. Often I don't even see the mouse cursor move but I suppose the laser is more sensitive than that so it selects a line. If the mousecursor does move a pixel, it may select 2 lines if it was on the edge of those lines.

In short, I would like to adjust the treshold for mouse selection so that it needs to register more movement before it starts selecting.

Anyone know if that's possible or not?

Thanks!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Selecting with the mouse

What WM / DE are you using? Have you tried setting the focus (bringing window to the front) so that it moves along with your mouse and you don't have to click?

mouseman

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From: Outta nowhere

Registered: 2014-04-04

Posts: 298

Re: Selecting with the mouse

I'm starting XFCE4 manually, no login manager.

Thanks for the suggestion but I can't really get used to that focus follows mouse setting, it annoys me even more .

I am experimenting with the mouse settings. The mouse itself (Zowie EC2 evo) has a DPI switch and I've turned that down and accellerated the mouse in XFCE settings panel. Not sure what the difference is, the mouse is a little slower this way. Maybe it helps, time will tell.

Setting the treshold for selecting would be ideal though.