Question about (usb) mouse being confused about drag-n-drop...

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Thu Feb 9 10:28:05 PST 2006


I turned off 3 button emulation, and I'm still seeing it.

-Philip


Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> I wonder if the delay from the Emulate3Buttons code is getting involved
> here.  (See the discussion on this in the comments on 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1752 )
>
>     -alan-
>
> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm seeing the following problem: when I depress and then release the
>> mouse left-button and then move the mouse without waiting, X 
>> applications
>> sometimes get confused and believes that something is being dragged 
>> (i.e.
>> that the movement started before the button-up event, not after it).
>>
>> I have an EPIA SP-13000 and also an MSI K8MM-V, both connected
>> through an IOGEAR 1734 switch to a Dell 2005FPW monitor (which
>> has a built-in USB hub), and eventually to a Logitech Wireless Comfort
>> Duo...  with the wireless receiver hanging off the USB hub on the
>> monitor, going back to the USB KVM switch...
>>
>> Though I also had the same problem before when using just a Logitech
>> Mouseman USB...
>>
>> I'm running FC3 updated, but with the RC3 release of Xorg (though I
>> saw this previously with the FC3 distro release of 6.8.2 as well).
>>
>> This causes a lot of hassle, since things get dragged around that 
>> shouldn't
>> be...  I'll wager it's a simple fix to my xorg.conf file, but I can't 
>> figure out
>> what it is.
>>
>> I googled for a posting about a similar problem, but didn't find any 
>> solutions.
>>
>> Does this ring any bells with anyone?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Philip
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