On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:07:00PM +0000, James Vernon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using FVWM version 2.4.3 on an i386 running Redhat 7.1 installed
> from RPMs (fvwm-2.4.3-1ewmh_0.6.i586.rpm) downloaded from fvwm.org
>
> My problem is that I can't get any mouse bindings working with buttons 6
> and 7 on my IntelliMouse Explorer. I think I've got the mouse working
> properly under X. If I run xev I can press buttons 6 and 7 and see the
> right events for the two buttons. In FvwmConsole if I type:
>
> 'Mouse 4 FST N RaiseLower'
>
> everything works OK, but if I try the same thing with button 6 or 7 I
> get this error message:
>
> '[FVWM][ParseBinding]: <<ERROR>> Illegal mouse button in line 6 FST N
> RaiseLower'
>
> This works in the version of FVWM distributed with Debian 2.2, which is
> version 2.2.4, although I don't know if Debian modify the source code at
> all.
Debian must have patched the sources in 2.2.4. As far as I can
remember, fvwm never supported more than 3 buttons in the past.
With 2.4.0, fvwm supports all five mouse buttons that X officially
supports. To increase the number of buttons that fvwm can handle,
you have to modify the file libs/defaults.h:
Replace
#define NUMBER_OF_MOUSE_BUTTONS 5
with
#define NUMBER_OF_MOUSE_BUTTONS 7
and recompile and reinstall fvwm. However, the buttons with
numbers >= 6 do not work as well as 1 to 5. This is because X
does not provide the necessary interface to handle more that 5
buttons in all functions. This means that some functionality is
not available with buttons 6 and higher.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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