Re: Middle button click broken
Re: Middle button click broken
- Subject: Re: Middle button click broken
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:22:11 -0700
erm... do you have some kind of 3rd party drivers installed for your mouse? My guess is you have "middle click" mapped to something like "cycle through apps"
ctrl-c and ctrl-v are entirely on the applications to handle. We just pass along those keypresses to whatever application you're running...
On Apr 18, 2010, at 01:30, Pierre Baguis wrote:
> Indeed, I followed your instructions and I clicked in the small white window. I was mistaken however about the kind of output you need. The middle click in my case produces precisely this:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> LeaveNotify event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
> root 0x381, subw 0x0, time 268261578, (-57,257), root:(0,899),
> mode NotifyNormal, detail NotifyNonlinear, same_screen YES,
> focus NO, state 512
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> And this is the LeaveNotify event I take when I move the mouse pointer outside the white box:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> LeaveNotify event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
> root 0x381, subw 0x0, time 268570589, (7,183), root:(1013,234),
> mode NotifyNormal, detail NotifyNonlinear, same_screen YES,
> focus YES, state 0
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Probably this explains why the middle click switches the focus to another active window. But is it also related to the copy-paste (ctrl-c --- ctrl-v) not working?
>
> Pierre
>
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
> To: email@hidden
> Cc: email@hidden; email@hidden
> Sent: Sun, April 18, 2010 4:03:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Middle button click broken
>
> + Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>:
>
>>
>> On Apr 17, 2010, at 12:20, Pierre Baguis wrote:
>>
>>> The middle click caused the terminal to come forth.
>>
>> You need to middle click inside the white box that was brought up.
>
> I assumed he had done that (it's what I asked him to do), in which
> case the reported behaviour indicates something odd going on. Of
> course, the xev output he posted came from the mouse leaving the xev
> window, so maybe you're right and he misunderstood the instructions.
>
> So, to make it even clearer: Move the xev window if necessary so it
> doesn't cover the terminal window. Middle click in it, preferably
> without moving the mouse, even a little. You should now see the mouse
> click event in the terminal window. The moment you move the mouse,
> tons of movement events will roll in and scroll the click events right
> out of the terminal window.
>
> - Harald
>
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