Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 18:16:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org> To: jos@catnook.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Selection using mouse aborts unexpectedly Message-ID: <1590020694.171246835811926.JavaMail.root@bayleaf> In-Reply-To: <1028722209.151246835679099.JavaMail.root@bayleaf>
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----- "Jos Backus" <jos@catnook.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:44:54PM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > Sounds like your mouse button is worn out. Did you verify this with > a different > > mouse? > > No, but I don't think I need to because selection works okay in an > xterm. I.e. > when I click-drag the left mouse button inside an xterm the selection > stays > active just fine as long as I hold down the mouse button. But when I > go to > some webpage inside Opera and try to select text, the selection aborts > and > starts reselecting right away. Same on the console. I could swear this > used to > work before. A Microsoft mouse of mine had similar behavior. The mouse is probably sending spurious up events. There's a flag for this in the ums driver: UMS_FLAG_SBU. Try or'ing that to sc_flag at attach time. > -- > Jos Backus > jos at catnook.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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