Possible bug with multiple pointing devices

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Tue Aug 11 16:47:16 PDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:56:12AM -0400, Joel Feiner wrote:
> I was going to file a bug report, but I'm not sure if this is a bug or a 
> configuration issue, so I am posting it here first.
> 
> I have a ThinkPad, which has a TrackPoint, and I use a USB optical 
> mouse.  When I left click to start selecting text with the optical 
> mouse, and drag with the TrackPoint, the mouse moves, but no text is 
> selected.  It works fine if I use the same pointing device to do the 
> button press and the dragging.  I just can't mix the two.  This issue 
> occurs regardless of which toolkit the application uses.

which server version? seems to work fine with git master.

Cheers,
  Peter



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