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

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