Mouse auto-selects a menu choice on rt click

[steelhoof]

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.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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[returnofnights (nightwolf-glc)]

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?)

[steelhoof (steelhoof)]

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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> of the bug.
>
> 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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[ShawnJGoff (shawnjgoff)]

Can anyone confirm this? I have a Dell Mini 9 with Crunchbang (an Ubuntu derivative) and it doesn't happen for me.

[daniel (bocardo+u)]

It happens to me pretty much everywhere there is a right click menu.
Happens both in my Inspiron 700M notebook and my desktop.
It can be dangerous depending on what the menu item under the cursor does.

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. Unfortunately a paper cut should be a small usability issue that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. I'm afraid this bug can't be addressed as part of this project.

This is more of a hardware specific issue , Not a papercut.
A paper cut is a minor usability annoyance that an average user would encounter on his/her first day of using a new installation of Ubuntu 9.10.

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.
@steelhoof : you might also want to check this bug ,
it has a similar issue> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/388859

[daniel (bocardo+u)]

Actually, this happens on every system I've used, with older AND brand new mice, as well as trackpads.
But I can see how this could be too difficult to fix as a papercut.
By the way, this happens on nearly every gtk software.

[Vish (vish)]

daniel , you are right this is happens for all gtk apps and is not hardware specific.. This particular bug is a duplicate of bug 410636 , so it is being marked as such. There is a patch on bug 410636 which has been forwarded upstream as well .

Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.