On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Francois Jooste wrote:
> Before I post a bug-report, I'm curious if anyone has any ideas about
> the following issue:
>
> While KDE is loading (especially while on the 'loading desktop'
> message), I can right click and get a proper menu from the desktop.
> Once KDE has finished loading, right click doesn't work anymore in any
> program.
>
> However, get this: If I hold in the middle mouse button and then
> press the right button, the menu comes up. What's going on? It's
> never done this before obviously.
>
> Some facts:
> I'm using a standard 3 button (with scrollwheel) MS USB mouse.
>
> To rule out that it's not actually a hardware/physical problem, I
> successfully used the mouse in Windows.
>
> cat /dev/input/mice returns carriage returns when I right click,
> suggesting it is recognizing the button alright.
>
> The button works fine while KDE is loading; it's only after it's done
> that's the problem.
>
> My xorg.conf file has this:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "Auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> So, it seems that the mouse itself is fine, it's that KDE isn't
> recognizing my right clicks. Please help!
>
> -FJ
Try using "ExplorerPS/2" as the protocol. Here's my mouse section:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection
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