Bug 141986 - Should not default to Emulate3Button in xorg.conf
Summary: Should not default to Emulate3Button in xorg.conf
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-mouse
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Paul Nasrat
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-12-06 16:26 UTC by Kristian Høgsberg
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-02-14 05:34:44 UTC
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Description Kristian Høgsberg 2004-12-06 16:26:17 UTC
The Emulate3Button option introduces a small delay between pressing a
button and actually delivering the button press event to the
application.  In the meantime motion events are delivered as normal,
which means that if you click to drag something (e.g. window resize),
the mouse cursor can sometimes have moved outside the click-sensitive
area causing the drag to fail.

It is not possible to fix the Emulate3Button functionality, it's
basically how it works.  Instead, I'd suggest that we no longer enable
it by default, but let the user explicitly select it or just add it
when the user selects a two-button mouse in system-config-mouse.

Comment 1 Paul Nasrat 2004-12-06 16:39:34 UTC
Whilst it's a fairly simple change in rhpl for the install a thought
just occured to me.  Do we want to have 3 button emulation on for
laptops by default as I guess many laptops just have the two buttons
with the touchpad.

Comment 2 Paul Nasrat 2004-12-06 16:42:15 UTC
Also Jeremy thinks we have a lot of two button mouse users out there
still.

Comment 3 Paul Nasrat 2005-02-14 05:34:44 UTC
Speaking with Jeremy indicates that there is both a large number of legacy mouse
users, plus new server hardware from vendors will ship with two button mice often.


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