Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Around 13 o'clock on Jun 29, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > > At one point I got the impression that XFree86 didn't support more > > > than five buttons. Is this true? This would seem to me like an > > > arbitrary limit that we should grow past nowadays... > > No. The core protocol supports up to 256 (255?) buttons. > > > The limitation on core pointer buttons comes from the event definition in the > > core X11 protocol: > > > > SETofKEYBUTMASK > > That limit restricts which mouse buttons are present in the state field > for events and which may be used to modify grabs, it doesn't restrict the > reporting of higher numbered mouse buttons in regular button events, nor > grabbing those buttons.
So where does the block on buttons lie then? Is there a driver I can hack, or something? 'james -- James A. Crippen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ,-./-. Anchorage, Alaska, Lambda Unlimited: Recursion 'R' Us | |/ | USA, 61.20939N, -149.767W Y = \f.(\x.f(xx)) (\x.f(xx)) | |\ | Earth, Sol System, Y(F) = F(Y(F)) \_,-_/ Milky Way. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
