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Subject: Re: Bug with moused and XFree86
To: davidn@blaze.net.au
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:44:52 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961015080711.7389C-100000@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au> from "David Nugent" at Oct 15, 96 08:17:42 am
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In reply to David Nugent who wrote:
> 
> (moving onto the title bar), the cursor is likely (but not
> always) to jump to an unexpected position on the screen. 
> Clicking on title bars will do something similar. The effect is
> more noticable if you attempt to move windows arround.  Killing
> moused causes the problem to simply vanish. 
> 
> >How -current ??
> 
> 961004-SNAP is what the kernel reports, or perhaps a day or two
> later - only a week or so old max.
> 
> XFree is 3.1.2G

OK.

> >Have you created the /dev/sysmouse & /dev/consolectl devices??
> 
> Yes.

OK:

> >Have you enabled the emulate 3 button in moused ??
> 
> No.

OK.

> >Have you enabled the emulate 3 button in XFree86 ??
> 
> No.

OK.
> 
> >What mouse device does XFree86 use ??
> 
> /dev/cuaa0

BUMMER! by doing this X and moused competes for the mouse!
You should use /dev/sysmouse in X.
> 
> This is a 3 button mouse also, but with switching from microsoft
> and mouse systems mode available (but no middle button in
> microsoft mode, so I tend not to use it that way).
> 
> Incidently, is there a software interface to moused available to
> applications?

Yes, there currently only is the ioctl interface that syscons provides
which can report mouseactions via a userdefined signal, but that will 
change sometime in the future when I get a little more time finishing 
my little pet project.


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