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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:57:16 +0200
From:      Giuseppe Pagnoni <gpagnoni@gmail.com>
To:        Giuseppe Pagnoni <gpagnoni@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,  freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg 7.5 and OpenMotif: mouse stuck in box
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimHmoYE2tw6BrS2661pbX1GAqfywsOE6Bh2QW%2Bj@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101011140730.GA81063@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
References:  <20101011140730.GA81063@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>

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Dear William,

thank you very much for your reply, it does seem to be the same type
of bug.  However, and I apologize for being dense here, it is not
immediate to me how to proceed practically to apply the patch from
within the ports framework.  Also, I still wonder why the patch hasn't
been incorporated in the tree given that the bug is known....

thanks again

giuseppe

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:07 PM, William Bulley <web@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote:
>>
>> I am resending this because it seems to me a really critical bug
>> (prevents you from using OpenMotif or lesstif applications), but
>> apparently nothing has been changed since last july. =A0Upgrading xorg
>> to 1.7.7 does fix the problem, but I wonder if this may cause
>> dependency problems in the ports tree. =A0Also, if this is the correct
>> fix, is there a reason why it hasn't been integrated in the ports yet?
>>
>> thanks again
>>
>> giuseppe
>>
>> >>>>
>> I am having a problem with xorg 1.7.5 and OpenMotif resulting in the
>> mouse being stuck in certain areas of the Motif windows that are
>> supposed to open dialog boxes when right-clicked. =A0I noticed that
>> somebody else reported the problem already in this list, and that it
>> seems to have been fixed in xorg 1.7.7. =A0However xorg 1.7.7 is not yet
>> available in the ports tree, nor it looks like a patch is in for the
>> current version (I tried to recompile xorg today after a port tree
>> update). =A0Is manually compiling Xorg the only solution right now?
>>
>> thanks in advance for any advice
>>
>> giuseppe
>>
>> >>>>>
>
> This is what I found recently. =A0Hope this helps you.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from William Bulley <web@umich.edu> -----
>
> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu>
> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 11:31:15 -0400
> Subject: SOLVED: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABL=
E
> Cc: x11@freebsd.org, steve@freebsd.org
>
> See below for details of solution.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from William Bulley <web@umich.edu> -----
>
> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu>
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:38:34 -0400
> Subject: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE
>
> For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue.
>
> I use a USB keyboard and a USB three button mouse attached to a Dell
> Optiplex 960. =A0This combination has worked fine for the past year.
>
> This week I upgraded from 8.0-STABLE circa January 2010 to 8.1-STABLE.
> I do this by doing a buildworld/installworld sequence after csup-ing
> stable-supfile and rebooting. =A0In this case I also pkg_deleted all of
> my ports and am rebuilding them from source. =A0Building Xorg is one of
> the very first ports I attempt since I prefer to work in xterms not
> virtual terminals.
>
> This upgrade moved me from Xorg 7.3 to Xorg 7.5, but Open-Motif stayed
> the same - open-motif-2.2.3_6 - it hasn't changed in years.
>
> After building Xorg, as root, I ran the "Xorg -configure" command to
> generate my xorg.conf.new file. =A0Since a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> file was still around after the upgrade from 8.0-STABLE/Xorg 7.3, I
> felt no need to change anything in that file (later file comparisons
> confirmed that nothing had changed).
>
> My only relevant additions to /etc/X11/xorg.conf are these:
>
> =A0 Section "ServerFlags"
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Option =A0"AutoAddDevices" "off"
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Option =A0"DontZap" "false"
> =A0 EndSection
>
> In my /etc/rc.conf file I have dbus and hald enabled, and that has
> not changed since the beginning of 2010 after the confusion abated.
>
> As a normal user, I start Xorg using /usr/local/bin/xinit as always.
> I have several xterms configured in my ~/.xinitrc file. =A0All those
> came up in the correct location and state. =A0I was able to open those
> that started in iconic mode. =A0In an open/raised xterm I could enter
> carriage returns and see my shell prompt move down the window. =A0But
> when I tried to close/minimize an open/raised xterm, things failed.
>
> I use the following keyboard/mouse combination (configured in my
> .mwmrc file) to close (minimize) an xterm (and other applications):
>
> =A0 Shift =A0 <Btn3Click> =A0 =A0 window =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0f.minimize
>
> This is also unchanged for some years. =A0This particular setting has
> no bearing on the problem I came across yesterday. =A0I merely state
> it for the record. =A0However, this configuration triggers the "bug".
>
> The problem is as soon as I use that Shift/Btn3Click combination,
> my arrow cursor disappears, then I cannot move to or select other
> xterms - I am frozen, or locked, into the xterm I was trying to
> close/minimize. =A0All I can do at this point is to kill(1) the
> /usr/local/bin/xinit command to return to the virtual terminal
> where I launched my Xorg session.
>
> I am now reluctantly using the good old /usr/local/bin/twm which
> is always built when Xorg is built from source. =A0I am at a loss
> as to what to look for next. =A0I suspect Xorg, or the keyboard and
> mouse driver, not the video driver, that came with. =A0It might be
> a problem with hald(8), but again, I don't know how to debug this.
>
> Any help with this very odd bug would be greatly appreciated.
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> This problem is known (and fixed) in newer versions of xorg-server.
>
> See this URL for details of the problem.
>
> =A0 <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=3D1884db430a5680=
e37e94726dff46686e2218d525>
>
> I have also attached the changes I made to the dit/events.c file.
>
> After rebuilding xorg-server with those patches, the Open Motif
> (mwm) window manager now works with the above minimize keyboard
> and mouse squence. =A0Thanks for all the help.
>
> Regards,
>
> web...
>
> --
> William Bulley =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Email: web@umich.e=
du
>
> 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|
>
>
> =A0 =A0for (; grab; grab =3D grab->next)
> =A0 =A0{
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0DeviceIntPtr =A0 =A0gdev;
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0XkbSrvInfoPtr =A0 xkbi =3D NULL;
> /* 3471 Mask =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0mask =3D 0; */
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0gdev=3D grab->modifierDevice;
>
>
> =A0=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=
=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D
>
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0}
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0xE =3D &core;
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0count =3D 1;
> /* 3586 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 mask =3D grab->eventMask; */
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0} else if (match & XI2_MATCH)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0{
>
>
> =A0=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=
=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D
>
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0count =3D 1;
>
> /* 3599 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0* FIXME: EventToXI2 returns NULL for enter eve=
nts, so
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 * dereferencing the event is bad. Interna=
l event types are
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 * aligned with core events, so the else c=
lause is valid.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 * long-term we should use internal events=
 for enter/focus
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 * as well *
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0if (xE)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0mask =3D grab->xi2mask[device->id]=
[((xGenericEvent*)xE)->evtype/8];
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0else if (event->type =3D=3D XI_Enter || ev=
ent->type =3D=3D XI_FocusIn)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0mask =3D grab->xi2mask[device->id]=
[event->type/8]; */
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0} else
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0{
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0rc =3D EventToXI((InternalEvent*)event, &x=
E, &count);
>
>
> =A0=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=
=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D
>
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0"(%d, %d).=
\n", device->name, event->type, rc);
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0continue;
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0}
> /* 3618 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 mask =3D grab->eventMask; */
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0}
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(*grabinfo->ActivateGrab)(device, grab, currentTim=
e, TRUE);
>
>
> =A0=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=
=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D*=3D
>
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0if (xE)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0{
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0FixUpEventFromWindow(device, xE, grab->win=
dow, None, TRUE);
>
> /* 3627 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0TryClientEvents(rClient(grab), device, xE,=
 count, mask, */
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 TryClientEvents(rClient(grab), device=
, xE, count,
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 GetEventFilter(device, xE),
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 GetEventFilter(device, xE), grab);
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0}
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0if (grabinfo->sync.state =3D=3D FROZEN_NO_EVENT)
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> Regards,
>
> web...
>
> --
> William Bulley =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Email: web@umich.e=
du
>
> 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|
>



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Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dip. Scienze Biomediche
Sezione Fisiologia
Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Via Campi 287
I-41125 Modena, Italy
Tel: +39-059-205-5742
Fax: +39-059-205-5336



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