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Re: three button emulation (not a faq, honestly)
- From: Phillip Lord <p dot lord at cs dot man dot ac dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: 11 Oct 2004 14:04:06 +0100
- Subject: Re: three button emulation (not a faq, honestly)
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Alexander> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Phillip Lord wrote:
>>
>> I've been having a nightmare getting cut and paste working
>> properly with cygwin-x. I went through the faqs, I various
>> things, and eventually isolated the problem to three button
>> emulation on the mouse.
>>
>> So I read up on this. I'm using multiwindow, so I can't use
>> emulate3button.
Alexander> Why should -emulate3button not work with multiwindow?
Alexander> I've not used it for some time but don't know of any
Alexander> reasons which prevented it.
>> I tried using tweak UI as suggested in the faq, but for the life
>> of me I can't find anything relating to three button emulation in
>> tweakUI.
Alexander> TweakUI was recommend for the FocusFollowsMouse (X-Mouse)
Alexander> feature.
Ho hum. Looks like I had misread the documentation in both
cases. Trying to do too many things at once.
I had tried emulate3buttons anyway, and had not got it too work. Your
assurance that it should work prompted me to try again. Given that I
think that mousepad drivers are intercepting clicks to both buttons, I
tried setting a fairly long timeout (500ms). So long as I click
carefully (i.e. with a gap between the two!), it all seems to work.
Thanks very much. I would have had distinct problems without this. My
apologies for not reading the documentation carefully enough!
Cheers
Phil