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Thursday, October 13th 2005, 3:34am

how to configure the left- doubleclick ?

Hello there,

this question seems to be quite simple - but it isn't.

i would like to change the direct action if i double-click on the desktop.
Usually there would nothing happens if you are not over an desktop icon.

And it doesn't fit to my needs to configure this "indirect" left-click behaviour :(

Any ideas welcome..

Thanks,
XOn

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Friday, March 17th 2006, 5:22am

RE: how to configure the left- doubleclick ?

All I found is single-left click on the Desktop > Behavior in Control Panel. Sorry.

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Friday, March 17th 2006, 10:33am

Hello.

Thanks for reply, it is still needed.

Right,- in KDE, there is a control-module for changing the click behaviour.
It lets you modify the single-left-click action.

Maybe there is something i dont understand:
The mouse-click action is related to the windows manager,
or is it related to the X-Server ?

If it is the windomanager/ KDE, there will be at least the possibiltiy to change
the code and to recompile.
Where would i get more information ?
Who can help ?


Thanks,

XOn

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Friday, March 17th 2006, 6:49pm

The mouse itself is controlled by the x-server which controls what how each button works. However, the click action is controlled by the window manager.

So you can change the buttons by the x-server (such as if you have a 5 button mouse - the scroll wheel is actually three buttons, forward is one, back is one, and click is the third) such as moving the right to left, or having the scroll wheel be the left and right if you want to get really wild. You can even assign keyboard keys, using imwheel, to mouse buttons (an example is a 7 button mouse with button on each side of the mouse - you can assign Alt + right arrow and Alt + left arrow to make a web browser go back or forward a page).

The window manager in KDE controls what actions take place when you click or double-click the button. That is the one that controls what happens when you double-click on the desktop. If there is not a setting for double-click, then nothing will happen, such as here with KDE.

Imwheel is a fun little program that can help you remap you mouse buttons to use keyboard actions. But a word of caution - the remap works everywhere so if you assign a keyboard combination to a mouse button, it will work everywhere, not just the desktop.

I'm not a big expert on this stuff, and you problably already know a lot of the above, but I do hope this helps a litte.

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Sunday, April 9th 2006, 3:57pm

Thanks a lot.
That seems to be an solution,
as it DOES configure the left -doubleclick as far as i can see.

But it configures the doubleclick systemwide...
That is not so good, but a big step forward.

Any Ideas are still welcome.

XOn