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Date:      17 Apr 2000 17:22:59 +0200
From:      Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: middle mouse button emulation broken in 4.0-STABLE?
Message-ID:  <2000-04-17-17-23-00%2Btrackit%2Bsam@antinea.enst.fr>
In-Reply-To: Robert Watson's message of "Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:11:18 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000414120839.56344D-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> writes:

Robert> Not sure if this should go to -current or -stable, since we
Robert> seem to get a lot of instant MFC's these days :-).  I upgraded
Robert> a notebook from 4.0-RELEASE to -STABLE last night.  After
Robert> doing so, I noticed that the middle mouse button emulation in
Robert> moused seems to be fairly broken -- i.e., once it's enabled, I
Robert> can no longer drag with the left mouse button (although I can
Robert> with the emulated middle button).  If I turn off emulation,
Robert> the left and right buttons drag normally, but now I can no
Robert> longer paste in X :-).

This has been fixed in both -STABLE and -CURRENT a week ago. The left
button is working, the timeout is just to long. Read moused manpage
and set the timeout to 200ms as a workaround (this is the default
according to the manpage, but not according to the code in
4.0-RELEASE).

  Sam
-- 
Samuel Tardieu -- sam@inf.enst.fr



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