Bug 437205

Summary: Desktop interprets mouse buttons greater than 7 to be left click (button 1)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jesse Keating <jkeating>
Component: gtk2Assignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jesse Keating 2008-03-12 21:22:58 UTC
I've got a mouse with a scroll ball on top, giving it effectively 7 buttons. 
However to avoid horizontal srolling I use xmodmap to map buttons 6 and 7 to
something higher than 6 and 7 ( you can map up to 32! ).  As soon as anything is
mapped to higher than 7, evolution takes that event and counts it as a left
click.  This makes it pretty difficult to scroll my evolution folders as any
left/right variance in my up/down scrolling will click on whatever happens to be
under my mouse.

My suspicion is that Evolution has within it somewhere a mapping of mouse
buttons and it doesn't go over 7.

Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-13 14:38:29 UTC
Jesse, what xmodmap expression are you using?  Just so I can try to reproduce
this with a standard mouse.  I've never used xmodmap before.

Comment 2 Jesse Keating 2008-03-13 15:46:49 UTC
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 10 4 5 3 11 8 9 6 7"

That should work, then revert to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 when you're done.

I had to shut down evolution and start it up again before I could get the folder
list to see the mapping, whereas other parts of evo saw the new mapping right away.

Comment 3 Mike Chambers 2009-03-07 14:26:02 UTC
Jesse, is this still a problem?  If you have upgraded to a newer evolution or to Fedora 10 or higher, can you modify the bug accordingly or close if fixed?

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Comment 4 Jesse Keating 2009-03-07 16:47:16 UTC
I'll have to retest.  I haven't been using that mouse in a while.

Comment 5 Jesse Keating 2009-03-31 16:43:45 UTC
This is still happening in rawhide.

Comment 6 Matthew Barnes 2009-03-31 19:13:55 UTC
What parts of the window are you scrolling over where you see this problem?  Just the message list and/or preview area or is it anything with a scrollbar?  Trying to narrow down which custom widget might be causing the problem.

Comment 7 Jesse Keating 2009-03-31 20:19:32 UTC
Turns out I see this on any window, even non-evolution windows.  I'm going to re-assign to .... not sure.  compiz?

Comment 8 Matthias Clasen 2009-04-01 03:30:52 UTC
Upstream bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499471

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 09:29:23 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 10:33:12 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
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