Re: Bug|RFE: Manually set mouse button count

[Alexander Gottwald]

Xuân Baldauf wrote:

 If one could manually specifiy the number of available mouse buttons
 (e.g. by command-line), this problem could be solved. Additionally, a
 related problem could be solved, too: Even if XWin correctly detects at
 startup time that there are only 2 mouse buttons, users might plug in a
 mouse with more buttons later on.

This was a bug. The code for detecting the mouse button count was added
lately to support mice with  3 buttons. But mice with  3 buttons were
not handled correctly.

I've changed this:
XWin always assumes the mouse has 3 buttons (Left, Middle, Right) and
the scroll wheel. This sums up to 5 mouse buttons for XWin (4 and 5 are
wheel up and wheel down). Any additional mouse button is added as button
6, 7, 8 and so on.

I'll make a release next week

bye
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Bug|RFE: Manually set mouse button count

[Xuân Baldauf]

Hello,
At least if XWin is run on notebook, there might be the problem that 
cygwin incorrectly detects the number of available mouse buttons. This 
may be the case especially if a 3-button-wheel mouse is attached to a 
PS/2-port of that notebook, because the internal PS/2-port emulator 
intermixes external mouse events with touchpad events. In this case, 
cygwin detects only 2 buttons (I assume the two touchpad buttons), while 
it should detect 3 buttons.

This is usually not a real problem, because cygwin seems to add (by 
default) 2 buttons (for wheel-up and wheel-down), resultin in a total of 
4 buttons. But if the user wants to use the wheel of the attached wheel 
mouse, the wheel-up-events are properly scheduled to the X clients, but 
the wheel-down-events are not.

If one could manually specifiy the number of available mouse buttons 
(e.g. by command-line), this problem could be solved. Additionally, a 
related problem could be solved, too: Even if XWin correctly detects at 
startup time that there are only 2 mouse buttons, users might plug in a 
mouse with more buttons later on.

Cheers,
Xuân.