Subject: Re: serial mouse emulation for macs w/o adb...
To: Taras Ivanenko <ivanenko@ctpa03.mit.edu>
From: Brad Salai <bsalai@servtech.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/23/1996 20:35:03
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> > The first button (left) seems to generate a single click, the second
> > button seems to generate a double clikc, and the third button (which
>
> the second buttons generates button-down on the first click, button-up
> on the second. It may work as a double click with your window manager.
>
> > used to paste in X under the kernels that don't specifically recognize
> > the Microspeed mouse, doesn't do that anymore. It acts like the first
> > button as far as I can tell
>
> This seems to be the default button assignent for this mouse. It works
> this way in MacOS too, before you reassign the buttons by control
> panel. The way protocol goes, if your driver did not recognize this
> mouse, it will think that it was the standard mouse and ignore the
> button information. If you have the old sources, you can rebuild your
> kernel with the new adb.c&adbsys.c and you will have all three buttons
> working properly.
Not to appear ungrateful for the added MicroSpeed support, This isn't an improvement. Is the default behavior useful in any sense? It certainly isn't much good in X. Could we make specific Microspeed support an option in config so it could be turned off and reasonable X behavior would return?
Brad