Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:31:41 -0600 (CST) From: Justen Stepka <raistlin@ecpnet.com> To: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> Cc: Leonard Chua <lenc@earth.infinetconsulting.com>, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused and X11R6 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970207222919.2151A-100000@chaos.ecpnet.com> In-Reply-To: <876804rsia.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com>
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On 7 Feb 1997, Zach Heilig wrote: > Leonard Chua <lenc@earth.infinetconsulting.com> 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
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