New 3-button serial mouse not detected by Lenny
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From: Chris Austin on 17 May 2010 08:20 Hi, On Mon, 17 May 2010 deloptes wrote: > Just for the record there are many ways to make it done and I think this > article explains a lot concerning your issue > http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee/fun/psaux/ Thanks for the link. On Mon, 17 May 2010 Tom Furie wrote: > Do you have some reason for not wanting to use a scrollwheel? Not really, but looking on Google for 3-button mice, I saw a message that said a scroll-wheel mouse is fiddly to use, and the scroll-wheel has to be clicked accurately, or something to that effect. I had never seen one close up, so I wasn't sure how they worked, and besides, I don't need a scrollwheel. In fact I purchased two anyway, and the first arrived this morning. > Have you been using a scrollwheel mouse with 3-button emulation? No, it was a Maxtro 2-button mouse, new around 2003. 3-button emulation worked well in Woody and Etch, but when I did a fresh install of Lenny when it became Stable in April last year, everything was brilliant, except that the 3-button emulation seemed to have deteriorated for some reason. In desperation I extended the Emulate3Timeout as described on http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2009/11/msg00120.html and worked with that for a year, but due I guess to less software contact bounce suppression in Xorg than in XFree86, I often still got unwanted context menus. Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005171250.49582.chrisaustin(a)ukonline.co.uk
From: Ron Johnson on 17 May 2010 09:20 On 05/17/2010 06:50 AM, Chris Austin wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2010 Tom Furie wrote: > >> Do you have some reason for not wanting to use a scrollwheel? > > Not really, but looking on Google for 3-button mice, I saw a message that said > a scroll-wheel mouse is fiddly to use, and the scroll-wheel has to be clicked > accurately, or something to that effect. I had never seen one close up, so I > wasn't sure how they worked, and besides, I don't need a scrollwheel. In fact > I purchased two anyway, and the first arrived this morning. > The fist time you accidentally move the mouse over to Window B and scroll the wheel while Window A is active, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BF14089.2040200(a)cox.net
From: Lisi on 18 May 2010 05:20 On Monday 17 May 2010 12:50:49 Chris Austin wrote: > > Do you have some reason for not wanting to use a scrollwheel? > > Not really, but looking on Google for 3-button mice, I saw a message that > said a scroll-wheel mouse is fiddly to use, and the scroll-wheel has to be > clicked accurately, or something to that effect. I have never had a problem with this in the 4/5 years that I have been using Linux, with a large variety of different scroll wheel mice on a number of different computers and in various distros. I find a scroll wheel mouse much easier to use than a three button mouse, because the distinction between the buttons is easier to identify. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005181012.40636.lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com
From: Klistvud on 22 May 2010 07:40 Dne, 16. 05. 2010 15:59:19 je Chris Austin napisal(a): > The three buttons now appear to be working as they are supposed to, > i.e. 1 for > select, 2 for context menus, and middle / 3 for paste, and even just > while > writing this message it has been an enormous relief to be able to > paste with a > proper middle button, rather than by 3-button emulation, which in > Lenny > frequently gives an unwanted context menu, and even worse, sometimes > activates > an item in that context menu. Uhm? I've been using Lenny on three different machines since 5.00 first came out and haven't seen the behavior you describe. Even my Genius bluetooth mouse works without a glitch, as do two distinct wireless Trust el-cheapo mice (one PS/2, the other USB). I *do* however encounter a somewhat similar problem with my laptop's touchpad: in Iceweasel, instead of scrolling the page (the touchpad has right-edge scrolling enabled by default), it apparently tries to jump to another URL, or maybe pastes an URL from somewhere. Haven't yet been able to track down the source of this annoyance though ... ;( -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1274528296.3111.1(a)compax
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