Package: mouseemu
Version: 0.15-1
Severity: important
Hello,
Thanks for packaging mouseemu. However, the first approach with it has
been extremely frustrating. Here's a report of it:
mouseemu significantly changes keyboard mapping without advice.
Simple scenario:
1) I run aptitude
2) I install mouseemu, drooling to get the cool "disable touchpad while
typing" feature
3) When I click F10 to get the menu to clean package cache and quit
aptitude, weird things happen instead.
If I'm lucky, I can remember that I had installed mouseemu and I know
where to start looking at (which is not easy if you did it together with
another 20 packages or so).
Short list of things that break that I found so far:
- Aptitude menus
- My 10th and 11th VC
- Keyboard access to the OpenOffice.org stylist
I guess many more are coming if I spend more than 1 minutes on it.
So, what is this thing doing to my system?
README.Debian
doesn't say anything about the mappings.
README
doesn't say anything about the mappings.
man mouseemu
doesn't say anything about the mappings.
mouseemu --help
just starts mouseemu.
/etc/default/mouseemu
has brief notes about mappings that are commented out (are they the
default ones, or an example on how to change them?).
How am I supposed to find out? Even the default setup of mouseemu is
undocumented. As it is now, the only way to see how it works seems to
be to try out all key combinations.
Now I'd like to reconfigure mouseemu to something saner (which allows me
to access those functions that F10 and F11 were actually useful for in
my system):
- What are those numbers I have to provide to its switches?
-> undocumented.
- How do I disable mouse mapping, keeping only the "disable touchpad
while typing" feature?
-> undocumented.
A shame, because the package has got the potential to be really useful.
Bye,
Enrico
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
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Versions of packages mouseemu depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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