From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 05:50:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA18660 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 05:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA18653; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 05:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA29183; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 08:54:16 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA15589; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 08:54:15 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA12424; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 08:40:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606240640.IAA12424@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: moused conflicts with X11 To: ache@nagual.ru (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 08:40:41 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: sos@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199606232315.DAA00469@nagual.ru> from "[?KOI8-R?]" at "Jun 24, 96 03:15:48 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As [?KOI8-R?] wrote: > It is easy to view them when you try to resize (enlarge) some window > under X11, i.e. hold down button and move mouse cursor away. > > What happens: mouse cursor often resets back in upper left > screen corner direction :-( XFree86 servers have some provisions for taking over control of a mouse and giving it back to the o/s, but there are no BSD-specifics right now. We should seriously think about a o/s-level mouse driver now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)