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- From: rhaller@oregon.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: logitech mouse misbehavior
- Message-ID: <rhaller-290892105801@rhaller.cc.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 18:22:05 GMT
- Article-I.D.: rhaller.rhaller-290892105801
- Sender: news@nntp.uoregon.edu
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Organization: University of Oregon
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- I have encountered the following misbehavior by a Logitech Mouseman
- attached to a IIci running System 7 and MacX. I send a remote command as
- follows:
- /usr/bin/X11/xterm -ls -sb -title "(host xterm" -display "(display"
- My preference is set for b&w rooted.
-
- When the xterm window appears, I start tvtwm.
-
- When the mouse is programed to send 'left cursor' and 'right cursor' for
- the middle and right buttons respectively and MacX is configured to expect
- this, then all is well.
-
- If instead, I configure both to send/expect option-left and option-right
- instead, then when I use the actual option and cursor keys, things still
- work just fine. However, if I use the logitech mouseman, here's what
- happens.
-
- If I click either the middle or right button while the cursor is outside
- the xterm window but on the root window, the associated menu pops up as
- usual. However, if I move the cursor outside the menu window and release
- the button, the menu window does not disappear and the cursor stays in the
- shape of '<=='. If I click the mouse button now, the cursor turns into an
- icon of the mouse, indicating which button I pushed and stays that way.
-
- If I send a mouse click command via the actual option-left or option-right
- that corresponds to the button I pressed to get into the bozo state, the
- cursor goes back to normal behavior. Pressing an other mouse button while
- in bozo state, requires one to send at least two option-cursor commands
- before leaving bozo state (it looks like if you send them in the same order
- as the mouse clicks, exactly two do the trick).
-
- Any ideas what's going on here and how to fix it? I prefer to have my
- cursor keys act like cursor keys without having to hold down the option
- which is what I have to do if I configure MacX to expect simply left and
- right as the mouse clicks.
-
- -Rich Haller
-