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 09:58:21 -0700
Well... can you try creating a fresh user account on your machine to see if it is something unique to your user.
On Apr 18, 2010, at 06:20, Pierre Baguis wrote:
> No, it is a cheap generic USB mouse with no drivers whatsoever. It is very strange. I also tried another one, also without drivers, and it behaves in the same way (that is the middle click is interpreted as a LeaveNotify event). Of course before the update everything worked fine.
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> In another machine (running X11 under WindowMaker) the update was smooth without such problems. I am wondering if Gnome is to blame (but then Harald had not issues).
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> The ctrl-c and ctrl-v are obviously on the applications to handle, but they worked fine in Nedit before the update. Now they are also broken (I touched nothing else in the X11 installation, I only ran the XQuartz installer).
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
> To: Pierre Baguis <email@hidden>
> Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>; email@hidden
> Sent: Sun, April 18, 2010 1:22:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Middle button click broken
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> 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"
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> ctrl-c and ctrl-v are entirely on the applications to handle. We just pass along those keypresses to whatever application you're running...
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> On Apr 18, 2010, at 01:30, Pierre Baguis wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 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
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> And this is the LeaveNotify event I take when I move the mouse pointer outside the white box:
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>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 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
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> 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?
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>> 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
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>> + Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>:
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>>> On Apr 17, 2010, at 12:20, Pierre Baguis wrote:
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>>>> The middle click caused the terminal to come forth.
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>>> You need to middle click inside the white box that was brought up.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> - Harald
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