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bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse
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Visuwesh |
Subject: |
bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse |
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Wed, 31 Aug 2022 13:52:41 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
[புதன் ஆகஸ்ட் 31, 2022] Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army
knife of text editors" wrote:
> Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I wonder if I can pull this off using debug Emacs running in Xephyr and
>> with a single mouse attached
>
> My experience is that subtle bugs with pointer grabbing cannot be
> reproduced in Xephyr (or any environment you specifically set up for
> debugging) at all, but it can't hurt to try.
I tried emacs -Q in Xephyr and it seemed to exhibit the bug but the real
challenge comes when I attach the debugger to the Emacs process, of
course.
>> (or maybe I can get my touchpad and mouse to be separate "mice"
>> somehow)
>
> You could try adding a new master pointer and attaching the device you
> want to behave separately to it.
Thanks for the hint. This will help me.
> The disadvantage is that 99% of window managers have no proper support
> for multi-pointer X environments, and either crash or freeze.
>
> I think mpwm is the only window manager that will work, but it will take
> a lot of time to find a recent copy.
It was surprisingly easy to find.
% git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/mpwm
did it for me. This looks like the right window manager to me upon
reading the README file.
[ I got this URL from this random webpage
https://readlist.com/lists/lists.freedesktop.org/xorg/6/33596.html
that turned up in Brave search. ]
- bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse, Stefan, 2022/08/21
- bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/21
- bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse, Po Lu, 2022/08/21
- bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse, Visuwesh, 2022/08/30
- bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse, Po Lu, 2022/08/30
- bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse, Visuwesh, 2022/08/30
- bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse, Po Lu, 2022/08/30
- bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse,
Visuwesh <=
- bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse, Po Lu, 2022/08/31
- bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse, Visuwesh, 2022/08/31