RE: Mouse chording question
Peter Scott wrote: Hello. I would like to migrate from eXceed to Cygwin for the performance improvement, but there is a feature I currently have that I have not figured out in Cygwin yet. I want MB1+MB3 to generate paste (as in MB2). You need the -emulate3buttons option for XWin (exactly how you set it depends on how you start XWin) Phil -- This email has been scanned by Ascribe Ltd using Microsoft Antigen for Exchange. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Mouse chording question
On 02/07/2009 05:50, Peter Scott wrote: Hello. I would like to migrate from eXceed to Cygwin for the performance improvement, What performance improvement? The performance/price ratio is infinitely better, ofc :-) but there is a feature I currently have that I have not figured out in Cygwin yet. I want MB1+MB3 to generate paste (as in MB2). Bear with me. I have a Logitech 3-button mouse on Windows XP and the Logitech Windows software that maps MB2 to double click - this happens for XP windows and X windows alike. So in order to paste with the mouse in the X windows, I tell eXceed to map the MB1+MB3 chord to MB2. This works; I can paste with that chord. But I have not been able to do this with Cygwin yet. I tried -emulate3buttons with and without a timeout argument, and it has no effect (tried all combinations of mouse buttons). If I turn off the Logitech MB2 mapping to double click, then MB2 pastes, but that won't do. The -emulate3buttons option should be doing precisely what you want; it emulates a middle-mouse button press when the left and right mouse buttons are pressed 'near simultaneously' (i.e. within the timeout specified). This works for me. How are you supplying -emulate3buttons to the server? Remember you will need -clipboard as well if you are trying to paste something copied from a Windows window The other possibility is perhaps that the Logitech mouse software you have installed is somehow interfering with the timing of mouse events to prevent -emulate3buttons working, although I can't quite imagine how. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Mouse chording question
At 03:42 AM 7/2/2009, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 02/07/2009 05:50, Peter Scott wrote: Hello. I would like to migrate from eXceed to Cygwin for the performance improvement, What performance improvement? The performance/price ratio is infinitely better, ofc :-) Good point :) eXceed is remarkably slow at drawing certain windows and menus in some applications I use, even after tuning saveunders and backing store. Unfortunately one of them is eclipse. I suspect it has something to do with pixmaps. Cygwin is fast. I tried Xming but it crashes on some apps. The -emulate3buttons option should be doing precisely what you want; it emulates a middle-mouse button press when the left and right mouse buttons are pressed 'near simultaneously' (i.e. within the timeout specified). This works for me. I believe you... I am used to giving my users that answer :) And it seems the role reversal is complete... because now (after a reboot) it works for me, too. Investigation reveals a case of RTFM deficiency. After each server option edit I exited the xterm that came up from the server start script and figured the server went away too (this is common in some X configurations, and my systray was shrunk without the X icon showing). So subsequent server restarts weren't taking because the first server invocation was still running. Problem solved. Sorry to bother you. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137001274 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Mouse chording question
Hello. I would like to migrate from eXceed to Cygwin for the performance improvement, but there is a feature I currently have that I have not figured out in Cygwin yet. I want MB1+MB3 to generate paste (as in MB2). Bear with me. I have a Logitech 3-button mouse on Windows XP and the Logitech Windows software that maps MB2 to double click - this happens for XP windows and X windows alike. So in order to paste with the mouse in the X windows, I tell eXceed to map the MB1+MB3 chord to MB2. This works; I can paste with that chord. But I have not been able to do this with Cygwin yet. I tried -emulate3buttons with and without a timeout argument, and it has no effect (tried all combinations of mouse buttons). If I turn off the Logitech MB2 mapping to double click, then MB2 pastes, but that won't do. This may seem like a small thing, but my fingers are used to these patterns and I use them many hundreds of times a day. Shift+Insert does paste in Cygwin, but I don't want to use keyboard only for paste - in a pinch I might be relearn to do with Shift+MB1 or Ctrl+MB3 for paste, say. Should I be looking more closely at xmodmap? Any suggestions? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
