Hello Chris,
> I am running (well, just beginning to learn about) xcircuit version
> 3.8.78 on xubuntu 17.10 (basically ubuntu 17.10 but with xfce desktop).
> This version of xcircuit is the default version from the Ubuntu
> repositories, I have simply installed it by 'apt install xcircuit' and
> have assumed it is sensibly configured (which may of course be quite
> wrong).
>
> I'm surprised I hadn't found xcircuit before, it looks excellent and
> just what I want for drawing and documenting my own (fairly basic)
> circuits.
>
> However while using the Tuturial to find my way through xcircuit's
> many facilities it would seem that the selection capabilities of
> 'Button 2' are not as they should be.
>
> The tutorial says that clicking Button 2 on an object (I'm just doing
> it with a line) should select that object and turn it 'gold'. Not on
> my system it doesn't, but Button 3 *does* select the object as
> described.
>
> Also I cannot get either Botton 2 or Button 3 to drag a 'marquee'
> round an object to select it. Pressing and dragging either Button 2
> or Button 3 does nothing at all.
>
> I'm pretty sure I have Button 2 and Button 3 the right way round,
> Button 2 is the RH button and Button 3 is the middle button - yes?
As defined in X11, Button 2 is the middle mouse button and Button 3
is the right mouse button. However, dragging is done with the left
mouse button (Button 1) held down. There is a difference in intepreting
a "tap" and a "hold".
> On revisiting the line creation stuff in Tutorial: Task 2 it seems
> to me that the functions of buttons 2 and 3 are reversed which did
> confuse me a little at the time but wasn't so obvious as the selection
> problem above.
>
> So is this a bug or just a mis-Tutorial? :-) ... and it would be
> nice to be able to do the marquee selection.
If the button 1 press-and-hold to drag objects is not described
correctly, then the tutorial is wrong; otherwise, if you're trying to
drag an object around using the middle or right buttons, it won't work,
and if you can't drag an object around at all, it's a bug, although I've
never known that not to work.
> Finally is this the right sort of place to ask this sort of question
> or is there a bug list on github? I caouldn't find xcircuit as a
> project on github.
When it's working, it's the right place to ask questions. However, I
moved recently and was forced to give up Verizon in favor of Comcast,
which has complicated everything ten-fold, and I'm still working out
bugs caused by the switch.
Regards,
Tim
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