Re: Middle mouse button Acting Wierd (tm) Help!
Re: Middle mouse button Acting Wierd (tm) Help!
- Subject: Re: Middle mouse button Acting Wierd (tm) Help!
- From: "Philip J. Schneider" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 06:13:17 -0800
Viv -
Thanks for the suggestion. Here's what happened, and now the mystery is "Why?":
1. Unplugged Macally mouse.
2. Plugged in Kensington mouse (three buttons, optical, middle
scroll, just like the Macally).
3. Ran X11, and copy-and-paste worked (!)
4. Removed Kensington mouse
5. Plugged in Macally mouse.
6. Got scary-looking popup window on the screen telling me that the
USB device is drawing too much current, and that the port is being
shut down (!!)
7. Reboot, this time with both mice plugged in.
8.Now, both mice will copy-and-paste in X11 (!!!)
9. Reboot, now only with the Macally mouse.
10. Macally mouse copy-and-pasting just dandy, as usual (!!!!)
(Aside - am I supposed to hot-swap USB mice - both mice are optical,
so their LEDs must draw some minimal current...?)
I believe what happened here is that the "Button Release" event
wasn't getting triggered...
I dunno - maybe the physical connection wasn't perfect, or the port
itself got wedged, or some odd side effect of attaching the
Kensington mouse did the trick...hmm...but again, things seem to be
OK. It probably wasn't just rebooting, as I've done several hot and
cold reboots since it stopped working. Guess this will just be one of
those head-scratchers...maybe a quantum effect :-)
Thanks!
-- Philip
First stupid question: have you tried a different mouse to see if
the same still happens? Just to eliminate the possibility that the
mouse itself is slightly broken and causing the problems?
-- Viv
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Philip J. Schneider wrote:
At some point in the past, normal X11 copy-paste behavior worked
fine for me. But no longer...
After I try to paste some selected text, my mouse buttons no longer
work correctly (and nothing gets pasted). For example, the left
mouse button can no longer be used to move the window around by
click-dragging in the title bar; sometimes other X11 windows get
"chased around" by mouse movements; can't activate an of the normal
three "bubble buttons" in the upper left-hand corner of the title
bar; occasionally, sometime later some selected text will be pasted
into an X11 window, etc. Occasionally, after a series of poking
around with the various buttons, "normal" mouse behavior will
return (but still no copy/paste).
Also am getting similarly odd behavior when using the middle mouse
button to scroll in plain old xterm - the scroll feature seems to
get stuck "on".
Mouse is a 3-button Macally optical scrollwheel mouse, no mouse
software installed, no "emulate 3-button mouse" in preferences.
Up-to-date Mac OS X 10.3.8...pretty vanilla, actually.
The last time I can remember this working correctly was in Jaguar... :-(
I saw a suspiciously similar-sounding (2003) thread in the
archives involving these folks: Steve Lidie
Cheryl Huntington, and David Mackler, but the thread seemed to have
spun out with no solutions offered...anyone found out anything
since then?
Any help would be *greatly* appreciated...
- Philip
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Dr Viv Kendon email@hidden
Quantum Information tel: 0113 343 3897
Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds
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