On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:55:43AM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > But (and isn't there always), when I right-click on the map, the pop-up > menu doesn't stay there for me to make a selection. > I seem to remember something about a "right-click problem" but that > related to Fedora. Anyone seeing something similar with (K)Ubuntu 8.04??
This is an unfortunate side-effect of the workaround that was put in to deal with broken X servers Xorg-server 1.7.5 has a bug that affects *all* programs that use motif, locking the mouse anytime the program tries to pop-up a menu, That is the "right-click problem" you're remembering, and while Fedora was the first system to show it, many other systems now have it. Since more and more distros are coming out that use Xorg-server 1.7.5 and don't patch it, it was necessary to put a work-around into Xastir to get it to work at all on those systems. With the work-around in place, the pop-up menu currently pops up only as long as you hold down the mouse button. This is better than what it does with that broken server, which is to lock the mouse. Hopefully, since this bug in the X server has supposedly been fixed, this work-around will only need to be temporary. Unfortunately, it's not easy to tell in the code when it's talking to a broken server, so the workaround has to be in place unconditionally. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "It is better to live on your feet than to die with your knees." -- Mil Millington on running, in Instructions for Living Someone Else's Life _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
