Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK wrote:
>
> I have a Toshiba Tecra M10, and the mouse pad has two buttons.
> Most of the time, I can highlight some text using the left button (click
> and drag as normal), then I can press both buttons together to paste in
> a target window (i.e. simulating the middle click).
>
> This mostly works (and I usually copy-n-paste this way), but at some
> point during my login session, it stops working, and instead I only ever
> get the right-click context menu.
The default configuration of Xorg is to recognize left+right as emulating
a third button until/unless a third button is actually clicked, at which
point it assumes you don't need it any more.
Unfortunately, on builds before about 119, the default on Solaris is to
open /dev/mouse and have the kernel combine all mouse like devices into
a single output stream, so a click on an external mouse will disable it
on all mice. With the switch to hal-based input hotplug in 119 and later,
each mouse is individually opened, so it should track each one seperately.
> I've not worked out what changes this, and I've not got a clue where to
> start diagnosing this.
Any messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log about disabling 3 button emulation?
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
