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- id AA10861; Fri, 25 Aug 95 09:40:34 PDT
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:40:35 -0700 (PDT)
- From: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
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- To: "Jered Floyd - jered@mit.edu" <jered@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: Mat Hostetter <mat@ardi.com>, John Edward Bauer <jbauer@plains.nodak.edu>,
- executor@nacm.com
- Subject: Re: Small observations and suggestions.
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- Not strictly true. I just installed XFree86 3.1.2 and they have now "fixed"
- the mouse event handling in Emulate3Buttons mode so that it works correctly.
- YAY! I've been waiting for this fix for a long time...
-
- Tom
-
-
- On Fri, 25 Aug 1995, Jered Floyd - jered@mit.edu wrote:
-
- > > I think this is an X11 bug related to two-button mice. The same thing
- >
- > Actually, it's a feature. You have 'Emulate3Buttons' set so that
- > the middle button is emulated by pressing both buttons at close to the same
- > time. Well, how is the server supposed to know what you meant to do? It
- > only sends a middle mouse button event if the mouse doesn't move between
- > when one button is pressed down and the other one is pressed. If you
- > don't want this to happen, either get a 3 button mouse, or turn off
- > Emulate3Buttons.
- >
- > --Jered
- >
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-