From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9419 invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2013 18:37:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 9272 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Feb 2013 18:37:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_TX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm3.bt.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (HELO nm3.bt.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com) (217.146.183.201) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:37:09 +0000 Received: from [217.146.183.196] by nm3.bt.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Feb 2013 18:37:06 -0000 Received: from [217.12.12.18] by tm2.bt.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Feb 2013 18:37:06 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp822.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Feb 2013 18:37:06 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: u.JgLvyswBBMp9ZJJfsX14qmYb3T2ivhMAr6OupnxLpNQEFZ9g-- Received: from [192.168.1.73] (jon.turney@86.166.57.162 with plain) by smtp822.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2013 10:37:06 -0800 PST Message-ID: <5117E8E1.6050806@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:37:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: kbrown@cornell.edu, gp1865@att.com Subject: Re: FW: xorg-server 1.13.1-1: problems with xterm References: <20130204180522.L8CD2.196982.root@hrndva-web22-z01> <397AD605DAD9254D9D2FFE207111E6442ADC760F@MOKSCY3MSGUSR9D.ITServices.sbc.com> <511540B1.6080300@dronecode.org.uk> <5117966D.5050006@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <5117966D.5050006@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2013-02/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 On 10/02/2013 12:45, Ken Brown wrote: > On 2/8/2013 1:15 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: >> On 06/02/2013 17:18, PRIKHODKO, GEORGE wrote: >>> After upgrading xorg-server and xorg-server-common packages from 1.13.0-1 >>> to 1.13.1-1 version, xterm stopped responding to mouse events. I can select >>> a text in a xterm window, but I cannot paste in it using middle button; >>> holding Ctrl button and pressing one of mouse buttons doesn't bring 'Main >>> Options' or 'VT Fonts' menus. After rolling back to 1.13.0-1 version >>> everything works as I expect. >>> >>> I have four computers WIndows XP, Vista, 7 and 8, and run XWin in >>> multi-window mode: >>> >>> XWin -ac -clipboard -emulate3buttons -lesspointer -multiwindow >>> >>> All four computers show the same symptoms. >> >> It's really not necessary write 3 emails about this, and certainly doesn't get >> you a reply any faster. >> >> I can't reproduce this problem. >> >> Are you using a 3-button mouse? Does removing -emulate3buttons help? > > I'm also seeing a mouse problem. It involves the combination > shift-leftbutton-rightbutton (intended to emulate shift-middlebutton) after > I've started XWin with -emulate3buttons. I use a 2-button mouse with a scroll > wheel that can be pressed to serve as a third button. But I find it hard to > press the scroll wheel without turning it, so I prefer to use -emulate3buttons. > > The shift-left-right combination used to be seen by emacs as shift-middle, but > now emacs doesn't seem to see it at all. Moreover, after I press it once, > either in emacs or elsewhere, both emacs and xterm stop responding to some > other mouse events. > > To reproduce (without emacs): > > 1. Start the X server with > > startxwin -- -emulate3buttons > > 2. Press shift-left-right in an xterm window, using a mouse of the type I > described. > > 3. Move the mouse over the titlebar of the xterm window. The menu items don't > get highlighted, and left-clicking on them has no effect. > > The problem disappears if I remove the -emulate3buttons option; but that's not > a good solution for me since I actually want to emulate 3 buttons. Thanks for the reproduction steps. It seems I introduced a bug in the -emulate3buttons code with some changes in 1.13.1-1, which could cause the emulated middle mouse button click to not be released. I've applied fix to address this, so hopefully this works better now. I've uploaded a snapshot at [1]. Perhaps you could try that and see if it fixes the issue for you? [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20130210-git-02d68fce528227a5.exe.bz2 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/