[4849] in Release_7.7_team
Re: quick-statalib3 is an Athena quickstation that can't paste in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Sep 30 17:24:30 2004
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
Cc: owls@mit.edu, release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:24:23 -0400
"Emulate3Buttons" is supposed to just automatically get set when the
Athena run of the Red Hat install detects a 2 button mouse. That's what
I THOUGHT happened on laptops so that mice would DTRT. Are we
hard-wiring a choice of mouse? Can't the install detect how many
buttons?
-wdc
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 16:41, Garry Zacheiss wrote:
> >> I'm not sure what exactly is going on here. Perhaps its a bug in the
> >> Athena install. Perhaps the machine CANT configure itself properly for
> >> a 2 button mouse for another reason.
>
> I don't think we've *ever* set Emulate3Buttons in our X configuration;
> we've always required a 3 button mouse. So I think what's going on is
> the way the world is supposed to work, although maybe that should
> change.
>
> Garry
