[NCLUG] Redhat 7.3 post install issues

Dave Treece davet at frii.com
Wed Sep 25 20:26:17 MDT 2002


Well,
  At least I'm not the only one having problems. :) I'm not going nuts after
all! I guess
I'm going to have to wade through the X/window manger config stuff...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
> Mike Loseke
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 8:43 AM
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Redhat 7.3 post install issues
>
>
> Thus spake John L. Bass:
> >
> > 	I guess that's that part that's confusing me. I have a
> three button track
> > 	ball that works fine with my RH7.1 system. But on my 7.3 I
> get this funky
> > 	pull down menu.
> >
> > Just taking a rough guess the track ball center button doesn't
> > return the normal mouse center button event code, and that
> > non-standard code is now mapped differently. I'm not sure where
> > the pointer device to X-event mapping happens, you will need
> > an X internals guys or someone used to playing with that stuff
> > to give you a clue.
>
>  Sounds like the window manager has decided that you need to do something
> other than what you were doing before. If it's a logitech trackman like
> the one I'm using then the middle button sends the same event code as does
> a normal 3-button mouse. You should be able to use "xev" to see what X is
> catching from the device.
>
>  You might be in for a wade through the window manager config though. I
> searched google real quick on this and only found this one as relevant but
> with no responses:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=3d6844c
> a_1%40news1.prserv.net&rnum=5&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%
> 3DISO-8859-1%26scoring%3Dd%26q%3Dredhat%2Bmouse%2Bmiddle%2B%2B7.3
>
>
>
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