Re: FW: xorg-server 1.13.1-1: problems with xterm

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 2/10/2013 1:37 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 10/02/2013 12:45, Ken Brown wrote:
>> 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?

That fixes it.  Thanks.

Ken


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