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alexmuller

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[SOLVED] Double click not working in some X11 applications

Hi,

I've just set up my first Arch install and I have budgie-desktop mostly working with X11. One thing that seems weird is that I can't get double click to work in Firefox. It works perfectly in xterm (selects a whole word) but in Firefox it does nothing. It doesn't select words or do things like zoom in to OpenStreetMap/Google Maps.

I feel like this must be something really straightforward I'm missing because everything else works but I'm totally stumped.

Thanks!

Last edited by alexmuller (2016-07-03 15:33:35)

mrunion

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Re: [SOLVED] Double click not working in some X11 applications

What theme are you using? Are you sure it's not selecting anything, or is it just not showing you what's selected? In other words, when you double-click a word, even though it doesn't appear selected can you copy and paste that word into another application?

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alexmuller

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Re: [SOLVED] Double click not working in some X11 applications

Thanks for the reply - I think multiple clicks aren't working at all because I can click and drag to select text which works as I'd expect it to, but double or triple clicking does nothing.

alexmuller

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Re: [SOLVED] Double click not working in some X11 applications

I've had a look with xorg-xev and I can see the multiple clicks working there:

ButtonPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0xf6, subw 0x0, time 1400469, (94,99), root:(170,317),
    state 0x0, button 1, same_screen YES

ButtonRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0xf6, subw 0x0, time 1400541, (94,99), root:(170,317),
    state 0x100, button 1, same_screen YES

ButtonPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0xf6, subw 0x0, time 1400629, (94,99), root:(170,317),
    state 0x0, button 1, same_screen YES

ButtonRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0xf6, subw 0x0, time 1400717, (94,99), root:(170,317),
    state 0x100, button 1, same_screen YES

alexmuller

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Re: [SOLVED] Double click not working in some X11 applications

My friend Michael helped me figure this out. For some reason Gnome's gsettings was overriding the multiClickTime that I set in the X11 config.

This fixed it (also editing it with dconf-editor would work):

$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse double-click
100

$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse double-click
400