Last week, for no apparent reason, my right-click behavior in Dolphin has been flaky, and definitely not normal. For example, I right-click on a file, wanting to view its properties. Either *nothing* happens at all, or the context menu pops up--and immediately disappears. It can easily take two, three, four or more right-click attempts before finally getting the menu to display and stay up long enough to choose its entry I want. Any ideas on what I tinkered with that could've caused this behavior? It does not happen in SeaMonkey or other programs, but can also happen with the taskbar.
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My first guess is a faulty mouse / mouse-button. If you have spare mouse, give it a try first. If you don't, you can change mouse properties to right to left and left to right and see if you can trigger the same behavior. -
As was mine.Originally posted by arsivci View Post
I've had mice with flaky buttons. Sometimes, they improve with some hard, rapid, bashing away on the button for a minute or so.
It's a while ago now, but I had a mouse where the button flakiness was due to a problem with the wire just as it leaves the mouse, where it got bent a lot.
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Thanks for the thoughts, but I don't think the trackball is the issue. It wouldn't have any way of knowing I'm in Dolphin, so act flaky, but now I'm in SeaMonkey [or KWrite or Synaptic or the GIMP or....] so don't act flaky. A bad trackball would display its problem regardless of program you're using, right? This is very localized to Dolphin although, as noted originally, it can also happen with the taskbar. I feel pretty sure that there's a timing setting--somewhere!--that's controlling this. But after perusing both System Settings and Dolphin's settings, I'm not seeing it.
BTW, it's a wireless Trackman trackball--no wires to get kinked!
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I, too, had that problem. My solution was to go buy another M325 USB mouse for $10. Problem solved."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.Comment
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A mouse doesn't have to be wired to fail. Wireless ones fail also. Moving parts will always fail at some point.The next brick house on the left
Intel i7 11th Gen | 16GB | 1TB | KDE Plasma 5.24.7 | Kubuntu 22.04.4 | 6.5.0-18-generic
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FYI: I was unable to reproduce it on 20.04.4.Comment
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I'm not being clear: it's NOT the trackball! I have four other, identical Trackman M570 trackballs to try--and the one I did acted exactly the same way. In *Dolphin* only. I never said wireless trackballs can't fail! I said there are no WIRES to get kinked.Comment
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Probably not much help, but I have had flaky right click problems on the web. I think it's caused by errant Javascript trying to control saving files off a web site. Changing to another browser sometimes fixed it.Comment
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Assuming it IS something in Dolphin specifically, export your Bookmarks, then Purge Dolphin and remove any reference to it in your /home/username directory, including any reference in hidden directories. Reboot. Then install Dolphin and Import your Bookmarks. Does the errant right-click mouse behavior persist, or is it fixed?Originally posted by DoYouKubuntu View PostUsing Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
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I don't have any bookmarks in Dolphin, so that's not an issue. However, my finely-tweaked configuration is!Originally posted by Snowhog View Post
I've asked before and never did get a definitive answer: is there a configuration file(s) that actually contains--and therefore can restore--all of my customization in Dolphin? For example, my toolbar entries, my icons I've changed in toolbar entries, how Dolphin acts/looks when it's opened, etc. The right-click issue *is* annoying, no doubt about that, but manually restoring all of my config changes in Dolphin would be, too. In the past, when I tried copying over what I thought were Dolphin's config files from $HOME, that only partially restored things. There must be a 100% method. Right?
I'd like to save wiping Dolphin for a last resort kind of solution, assuming we can't hone in on its actual, total configuration file(s).Comment
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