Comment 3 for bug 387404

yes, this 8.10 and I have tried mouse control adjustments.

Thanks for the info...
I guess it is time to move to 9.x.

I will do so tonight and retest the bugs

Bill

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:18 PM, returnofnights
<email address hidden>wrote:

> This bug is caused but the click speed being too low or ignored!
>
> What happens is when you right click an item it acts as though you've
> help the right button in (try this yourself on a file item in nautilus),
> holding the right mouse button will select the item your hovering when
> you release the button.
>
> I had this happen on 8.04 and 8.10 - but not 9.04 (so may be fixed?)
>
> --
> Mouse auto-selects a menu choice on rt click
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387404
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>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: New
> Status in “gtk+2.0” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> When trying to right click and select from choices, the mouse action will
> autoselect a menutask and perform the action. Annoying in natulis and text
> documents. Almost crippling at times in Firefox.
>
> When the mouse is placed over a link, object or in a page and the mouse is
> right clicked, the same action will be repeated time and again until the
> mouse is selecting at a different point on the desktop. If an object or
> link is in position a, the same autosection of a task will occur. If the
> object or link is moved to position b, the mousing activity is typically
> normal.
>
> System is a Dell Mini9, and to date no updates have affected this action.
> apt-get upgrade is run weekly at a minimum. Other bugs have been corrected
> with the updates.
>

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