--- Rob Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The one thing I missed from my Windows days was the ability to assign > > one of the mouse buttons to perform a left button double-click. It's > pretty much a universal feature on Windows mouse drivers these days > (with buttons being in ample supply on many mice), and I like it > because > I find the action of double-clicking irritating ;-).Also, my mother > has > arthritis, and finds double-clicking to be very awkward. She finds > having a single button to do the double-clicking makes things much > more > comfortable. > > I tried to find the feature on Linux, and couldn't. I searched > XFree86, > qt, and kde, and it didn't seem to be there. Then I decided to > implement > it myself. Not being sure where to implement it, I finally decided to > do > it in XFree86 because then it can be useful to all of the window > managers etc. > > I've made (pretty trivial) changes in > xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/xf86OSmouse.h and > xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/mouse/mouse.c. The result is a > new > option (DoubleClickButtons) where I can specify the source and target > > buttons, ie. pressing the source button will result in a double-click > on > the target button (the source button is no longer available for any > other function). The double-click is just implemented by posting > press-release-press-release with no delays in between. A nice > side-effect is that I can decrease the double-click delay in KDE, > which > makes certain operations snappier. > > So my question is: is anyone else interested in this? I'm more than > happy to make it public, but I don't know diff and I'll have to look > into where these things are documented and I won't bother if no-one > will > use it :-) >
Post your patch and a description as an enhancement on xfree86 bugzilla: http://bugs.xfree86.org Alex > Oh, and if the feature already exists and I just failed to find it, > please let me know. If nothing else, it may at least show me where my > > search technique is deficient! > > Cheers, > Rob Brown. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
