Keyboard - mouse interface fail on linux install

Jimmie Houchin jhouchin at texoma.net
Wed Jun 5 23:12:30 UTC 2002


This worked fine as far as mouse buttons being correct on my Debian/Sid
machine, Athlon processor.

HTH.

Jimmie Houchin

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 13:45, Ian Piumarta wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Chris Farmer sent me lots of xev output from his Mandrake system.  After
> decoding all the weirdo stuff that was being reported I think I've solved
> the problem.  BUT, not having a Mandrake to test it on I'd really
> appreciate some help...
> 
> If you've had keyboard/pointer problems in recent 3.1 VMs then please
> would you take 2 minutes to download the following binary:
> 
>   http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak/unix/3.1current/bld/squeak
> 
> and let me know if it solves your mapping problems.
> 
> (Details: the code in the above VM is "immune" to junk in the "state"
> member in X key/button events [which for some reason was completely absurd
> in Mandrake] and will instead track the modifier state using the keysyms
> reported in press/release events.)
> 
> If this 3.1 VM works for you then I'll pull the changes forward into
> 3.[32]-devel.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> 





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