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- From: maguire@cs.columbia.edu (Gerald Q. Maguire)
- Subject: HP-HIL mouse + tablet as X pointer devices
- Message-ID: <MAGUIRE.93Jan7033738@ground.cs.columbia.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News)
- Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:37:38 GMT
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- If you put the following in X0devices:
-
- first keyboard keyboard # first keyboard on loop is X keyboard
- first mouse pointer # mouse is an X pointer
- first tablet other # graphics tablet is also an X pointer
- first nine_knob other # also allow the knobbox to move the pointer
-
- And you have a three button mouse all is fine.
-
- However, if you put the tablet in before the mouse - you loose button2
- and button3 mouse events! Or atleast this was my experience under HPUX
- 8.07. Curiously the order of these options shown in the sample file
- (/etc/newconfig/X0devices) has the tablet before the mouse.
-
- Another curious mis-feature is that xev is mentioned three times in
- "Using the X Window System" (based on a LaserROM/UX search of the June
- 1, 1992 CD-ROM), but the binary does not seem to be in /usr/bin/X11
- nor is the manual page present. I ran xev on a remote system with a
- window on the local system and quickly found that there were no button
- events for other than the first button.
-
- Sent in the interest of helping others avoid this problem. [Which was
- caused when I set things up to use a tablet to enter splines in
- FrameMaker.(this works fine)]
-
- I have not received 9.0 executable (but have several documentation
- disks) so have not checked if the above has been fixed.
-
- Chip
-