Fred: > On 5/12/22 15:23, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > > On May 12, 2022 9:44:39 PM GMT+02:00, Fred <f...@blakemfg.com> wrote: > >> I don't use a DE, just openbox and xterm. The regular scroll wheel > >> mouse works correctly in both xev and the application. Button 2 is > >> identified as 2 so I contend it has to have something to do with > >> program(s) run to use the serial mouse. > >> > >> xmodmap -pp shows the buttons mapped correctly with both mice. > >> > >> The Xorg.log file has entries for USB Optical Mouse, Mouse Systems > >> mouse and Sun mouse (when I gave that protocol to inputattach and > >> gpm) but nothing about mouse buttons.
Then I'm more or less at loss what to do, save make an adapter for my sun mouse try it at home. ... > > There's just one question itching me for a > > little while now: Is it possible, that this > > old mouse simply has some physical > > issue, triggered by using button 2? > > > > And if so, what would be the best way to > > prove it? He has already proven it. > No, the mouse is fine. I have an application that I have used for 20 > years running on Solaris 2.6. The Sun is retired but I still need the > application. I was able to get it to compile and run happily on Devuan > Beowulf and it works fine with the standard pc scroll wheel mouse. The > program makes extensive use of the middle button which is a pain with > the pc mouse. I would like to continue using the Sun three button mouse > which works except the middle button. I have studied the output of the > mouse with an oscilloscope and software and it is working exactly as a > Mouse Systems mouse. There is some defugalty in getting the middle > button information into user programs. Maybe a bug somewhere? There have been some changes over the years, e.g. xlib replaced by xcb. This might not be related, but this little test program didn't work (segfault) with devuan/debian libXt but it workes fine in gentoo: http://aspodata.se/computing/librnd_motif/Shell_Size_Constraint/ it also workes fine in debian woody and when rebuilding libXt in previous devuan version, so it might be something shady in current devuan/debian libxt. If this is really important to you, you could try to . rebuild libxt . install another distro, eg. gentoo . try an older version of debian, e.g. potato, woody or sarge Regards, /Karl Hammar _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
