From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 7 20:33:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA23165 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 20:33:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (adm@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA23146; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 20:33:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) id WAA15834; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:33:18 -0600 (CST) Posted-Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:33:18 -0600 (CST) Received: from chaos.ecpnet.com(204.246.64.13) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0beta) id xma015817; Fri, 7 Feb 97 22:32:55 -0600 Received: from localhost (raistlin@localhost) by chaos.ecpnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id WAA02156; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:31:42 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:31:41 -0600 (CST) From: Justen Stepka To: Zach Heilig cc: Leonard Chua , freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused and X11R6 In-Reply-To: <876804rsia.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 7 Feb 1997, Zach Heilig wrote: > Leonard Chua writes: > > > Anybody tried running moused on 2.2-BETA? > > Works beautifully in console mode, > > But when I run X, there seems to be a conflict with X's mouse events. > > One reason may be that I have moused doing 2 button microsoft mode > > and X doing 3 button mode. The mouse cursor at X works fine until I press > > button 3. Then the mouse no longer responds. The rest of X still works. > > A possible fix would be to hack moused to notice an X session and stop > > capturing mouse events then. > > I just started running X on my 2.2-ALPHA system (saw too many problems > with the beta version :-). I noticed about half the time I hit the > right button it pastes a 'd' into whatever application is active. And > when I hit the middle button, it pastes the 'd' and perhaps that > buffer after the 'd' (depending one where the mouse is). This is > especially annoying when dealing with scroll-bars and other > applications that take the 'd' key to mean something. > > I'm not entirely sure what's wrong, but maybe someone else has > noticed. The system is running moused, XF86_SVGA, and fvwm (and a > whole boatload of xterms and other applications). > > -- > Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email > Support bacteria -- it's the only | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing > form of culture some people have! | with companies that email ads. > I to have noticed a problem similar, I have no problem loading X though. The problem is when I go to move the mouse it appears as though it's "drunk" and drags along slowly and in weird patterns. I figured that code had been changed so I just turned moused off. Justen Stepka