Configuring mouse click action

I was reading this old thread https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/525995-One-click-double-clicking-in-Dolphin which sounds related to my question, but I’m unable to find the setting described in that thread, in my version of Leap 15.2 .

I’m not a regular linux/unix user so after 1/2 hour of using start/search and typing in “mouse” or “yast” and running anything that looked like a mouse setting, I’m not finding what causes Dolphin to open a folder when I click on it. I do not have great mouse control, so keen to find a way to turn this off by default so that clicking selects, and double-click opens items in SUSE in general. I want to be able to type in a folder or file-name to filter, much like I often do in other OS’s file browsers, by typing, which reduces RSI onset (I struggle with the mouse). I am not keen to add yet another file manager/browser, since I’m not going to be using SUSE that often, I just need to do one thing, get the nueavau driver upgraded to the full NVidia. Will be asking separately for help there and other areas later. Just the mouse config is puzzling me right now because mouse settings are spread over in 3 applications and none of them seem to describe changing the behavior of selecting/clicking to newbie users like me.

Thanks in advance

Welcome to openSUSE Forums. From your reference to Dolphin I assume that you’re using KDE. You can configure the required pointer behaviour via KDE’s System Settings…

Menu -> System Settings -> Workspace Behaviour -> General Behaviour -> Select “Double-click to open files and folders” then click ‘Apply’.

Hi Deano,

Recently my one click behaviour has changed and I now have to double click with left mouse button. I am using Leap 15.4 with KDE and looked for the one click option but it is not available on my machine.
Please can you give me a clue how I can revert to single click behaviour?
Budge

Are you still running 15.2?