Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:00:26 GMT From: "deeptech71@gmail.com" <deeptech71@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/137748: x11/xorg: "unprocessed" mouse click results in effective mouse being locked in an area Message-ID: <201109010500.p8150PJa021202@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/137748; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "deeptech71@gmail.com" <deeptech71@gmail.com> To: bug-followup@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: ports/137748: x11/xorg: "unprocessed" mouse click results in effective mouse being locked in an area Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 06:27:04 +0200 Alright, the root cause of this "bug" was a semi-broken mouse. The mouse had been physically beaten a lot, and as a result, it had a button (a so-called "universal forward button", btw) constantly pressed (ie., without the need to press the button by hand). X does not act very well with such a mouse. In other words, press-and-hold the right mouse button (or some other fancy mouse button you might have), then try to work with the mouse in X, and see what happens. Also try this on some other operating systems with X. On a side note, Windows XP works well with such a mouse: there is some (hard to describe) mouse click instability right after booting, but that goes away after a few clicks. Maybe some minor workarounds could be added to X to allow such mice to work better, but without breaking other things. This will have to be discussed with the X people. If the FreeBSD maintainers are not responsible for such changes, then: This PR can be closed. I'll also try to get all other similar bug reports (for GNU/Linux systems) out there closed.
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