Hendrik Tews wrote:
James Weatherall writes:
If I remember correctly, the X11 protocol supports only five "buttons"
natively, being left, middle, right, mousewheel-up & mousewheel-down. VNC
As far as I know, the first X11 system I used (a SunSParcstation back in
1992) had a 3 button mouse. With that mouse, in right hand mode, the
buttons 1 to 3 where numbered from left to right. Pressing button 1&2
simultaniously, signaled mouse button 4, Button 2&3 gives button 5 and
1&3 gives button 6. The OpenView window manager (ovwm) actually used
those mouse buttons. Come to think of it, this might be an ovwm
implementation, effectively using only buttons 1 to 3...
For current situations, I think there are some parties that have to
cooperate:
- The mouse driver at the console needs to send the signals to the
desktop-s X11 (or msWindows desktop). I bet most standard mouse drivers
only recognize 3 physical buttons and the scroll-wheel.
- Then the window manager (linux or windows) must send the signals to
the vncviewer application.
- I guess the vncviewer application blindly sends all signals to the
vncserver side.
- msWindows based vncserver must send the signals to the remote
msWindows windowmanager.
- unix based vncserver (Xvnc) must handle the signals: send it to the
windowmanager at that side and so on.
- Finally there is the application that has to handle the mouse buttons...
technically supports an additional three to make a total of eight, but they
are unlikely to work with X11.
Yes, I had the hope that now, when nearly every mouse identifies
itself at least as a 12 Button mouse, this button restriction
has been lifted.
Anyway, is there a way to get a Button 6 press event through vnc?
Bye,
Hendrik
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