Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK wrote: > >> I have a Toshiba Tecra M10, and the mouse pad has two buttons. >> Most of the time, I can highlight some text using the left button (click >> and drag as normal), then I can press both buttons together to paste in >> a target window (i.e. simulating the middle click). >> >> This mostly works (and I usually copy-n-paste this way), but at some >> point during my login session, it stops working, and instead I only ever >> get the right-click context menu. >> > > The default configuration of Xorg is to recognize left+right as emulating > a third button until/unless a third button is actually clicked, at which > point it assumes you don't need it any more. > > Unfortunately, on builds before about 119, the default on Solaris is to > open /dev/mouse and have the kernel combine all mouse like devices into > a single output stream, so a click on an external mouse will disable it > on all mice. With the switch to hal-based input hotplug in 119 and later, > each mouse is individually opened, so it should track each one seperately. >
I don't often plug in an external mouse, and I've certainly noticed it disabling the emulation without an extra mouse. There are actually two pointing devices on the Tecra M10 I have - the the touchpad and the little blue joystick between the G-H keys. There are two sets of buttons (presumably for use with your preferred pointing device), but I've found that I can use each set interchangeably without loss of the emulation. > >> I've not worked out what changes this, and I've not got a clue where to >> start diagnosing this. >> > > Any messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log about disabling 3 button emulation? > > I'll check when this next happens. Is there something wrong which needs diagnosing here, or should I simply apply the setting to xorg.conf from later in the thread and keep quiet? (oh and can you remind me the current way to generate the "default" xorg.conf - is it still "Xorg -configure"?) Thanks, Brian -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Revenue Product Engineering Sun Microsystems UK Sparc House, Guillemont Park, Camberley, GU17 9QG
