Does anyone disagree that 5327 is a bug which needs to be fixed?

Mr E_T troll at arach.net.au
Wed Jan 18 17:02:11 PST 2006


On Thursday 19 January 2006 08:54, Deron Johnson wrote:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5327
> 
> Basically, what is happening is that every time the user moves the mouse
> wheel button press and release events are generated with button numbers
> 4 or 5 (depending on the direction of the wheel movement). These events
> are repeatedly triggering the default button grab and terminating the
> grab. This is a waste of cycles. It seems to me that triggering a grab
> on a mouse wheel movement is contrary to the X11 protocol. I am willing
> to fix this. Does anybody disagree that it needs to be fixed?
How do you tell a standard button from a wheel button
Ive seen mice with 4 or more buttons and a wheel.
( Dont know why you need em tho )

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