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Subject: Re: moused conflicts with X11
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:05:54 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199606240640.IAA12424@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 24, 96 08:40:41 am
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In reply to J Wunsch who wrote:
> 
> 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.

We will be having that shortly ...

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