Disabling double clicking

Please, Apple, acknowledge this problem and give us some feedback.

Won't be happening here, since these forums are user-to-user ones.


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sid_j wrote:
Is there a way to disable double clicking?

Sid,

What about triple clicking? What about click-dragging? There is a new paradigm in OS 10.6.x (Snow Leopard). You can see my post which describes what you may be talking about or have been experiencing. Unfortunately, I know of no way to defeat this operation or modify it in any way, short of downgrading to OS X 10.5.x (Leopard).

Click here to go to my post in Discussions. Two cases of selecting text are described in detail there.

Tell me if you agree that what you see is the same thing. And also let me know if that's a problem for you. I like some of the undocumented features that I discovered quite by accident, but not the bottom line- that the effects of these features are so varied (between the actions of) clicking before a word, clicking after a word and selecting words containing special characters.

Regards,

Henry

Try going to System Preferences>Mouse and setting the Double-Click Speed slider to its maximum (Fast).

If the mouse is only a few months old it should still be under warranty. Since a mouse can be had inexpensively, either replace it or buy a cheap replacement while you are dealing with the warranty replacement.

sid_j wrote:
Henry,

So, here's what I have:
my one click = computer's double click.
my double click = computer's triple click.
my triple click = same as above.

click-dragging behaves as what you would normally experience with double-click+drag.

Well, guess i'd have to agree. Do you have another (temporary) mouse to try and confirm on the same computer?

Having the same issue. One day, single clicks just started to function as double clicks. Very annoying. No problems with Magic Mouse after changing preferences, but USB mouse doesn't seem to respond to double click preference setting. I use Mighty Mouse for casual computing, but need the precision of scroll wheel from USB mouse for architectural drawings and renderings.

I have two magic mice and a wired kensington (for emergencies) and all three devices exhibit the same behaviour: they all doube-click when I single-click.

I've also been having to put up with this issue for some months now and it's beginning to wind me up.

I'm running on a MacBook Pro (Model Id: MacBookPro5,2) running OS X 10.6.6.

Please, Apple, acknowledge this problem and give us some feedback.

Thanks,
Iain.

I too had this most extremely irritating problem. It completely ruins your Mac experience. There are many other horrifying details of what this does to your Mac. Not only can you not trash things properly, you can't even move files or rename them. Every single click on a file to rename it, opens it. You can't drag windows without them collapsing into the dock, and clicking the red button on a window's top to close it, will minimize it into the dock. I was so frustrated & increasingly LIVID! Just when I was about to phone Apple & complain.... I thought... why not search "os x 10.6.6 mouse problems single click double click"

that brought me here...

Now, after following the advice presented here (in Mouse Preferences - turn the Double Click speed up to maximum), the problem is SOLVED. It's nothing to do with your mouse, or your motherboard. Trust me, try that suggestion.

Yes, it's completely counter intuitive, I would bet most of you that had this problem, during your attempts to thwart it, tried lowering the double click speed in that preference panel. I know I did. Never even thought to max it out. After I found that maxing it out, removed the problem, I've been able to back the slider off from the max position by about one notch. Now all is well with my mice; Apple magic wireless & Logitech Marble Trackball.

Now, that's enough fussing with you silly little mice, learn to behave or I'll bring the cat in here....

Nice one, MacFanatix. That works for me, too. Like you, I backed it off one notch and it's all good!

Thanks.

There are a couple of other threads on here filled with people having the same problem; it may be worth reposting your message in them for maximum benefit.

You're quite right: it's completely counter-intuitive and certainly not what you'd expect from HCI experts such as Apple. That's one I hope they will fix in 10.6.7.

I found the 'double-click-speed' worked. Thanx.

But this has nothing to do with Snow Leopard. I'm using the older OS, and this problem developed about 3 months ago out of nowhere. I would double-click a word to drag it somewhere, and it would 'triple-click' the whole paragraph. Infuriating. I had to wait almost 3 seconds, and finally started resorting to drag-selecting the word, then clicking on it to move it.

Since the BUG afflicts Leopard, it's obviously known to Apple employees, engineers, developers, etc. So don't expect a fix. It's going to be one of those permanent items that will silently plague 1000s of users who don't know how word the problem to find a fix and just give up. I had to Google to find this page, and had to keep re-tailoring the wording of the search to find the answer. I expect things to get worse, as Steve has moved onto the ipad platform and Macs will be another 'Oh, we still do computers, don't worry...' , optics-dance spin.

Also, I find logging onto Apple forums can be a nightmare of its own. It's not the tight security rationale, but the irrational error-handling.

That's sort of like asking can you disable the menubar or keep the Finder from displaying filenames. Why do you want to disable double clicking?