Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 04:07 PM EDT |
I don't think anything bad would happen, but wouldn't that depend on how
paranoid the society you are living in is?
Anyhow most any feature in Ubuntu or any other linux distribution is possible to
switch off.
And there will be documentation available to teach you how to do it.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 04:22 PM EDT |
You can find several ways to switch off hover click in Ubuntu by googling
"ubuntu hover click" and look at the results.
It took all of 15 seconds.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 06:58 PM EDT |
I'm using Ubuntu 21.04, and I've never heard of "hover click" before.
A bit of research shows that it's one of the settings for disabled people. It's
intended for use by people who are physically disabled and can't click a mouse
button (e.g., they are paralysed and use one of those tongue joy-stick thingies
to move a mouse pointer around the screen).
The menu option for this (and a lot of other "assistive technology"
setting are under "Universal Access" (click the gear wheel at the
upper right, then "System Settings", then "Universal
Access", then "Pointing and Clicking"). On my PC all the options
there are turned off (you should see the word "off" if it's off and
the sliders should be greyed out).
If you're having a problem, then it's something in your particular PC, not
something that everyone else has as well. If you really are seeing this, then
it's possible that the configuration file is corrupted and the mouse handling
stuff is confused.
Another thing to consider is that you might simply have a mouse problem. If your
mouse is flaky, it might be sending mouse clicks almost continuously but you're
only noticing it with certain programs. Mice do occasionally fail like this, so
if you've got another mouse, try changing to that and see if the problem goes
away.
So to sum up, the behaviour you're seeing isn't the default or normal for
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 09:15 AM EDT |
I am forced to use Windows 7 at work. It is terrible. Buggy, buggy
stuff.
But my biggest pet peeve is how in Windows Explorer mere
hovering selects a file. I can't tell you how many times I have
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