RE: Right mouse button does not work

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Stefan,

Okay, the next obvious thing that you need to do is try different window
managers, such as twm.

Report your results to the list,

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Brozinski,
> Stefan
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 5:53 AM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Cc: 'Harold Hunt'
> Subject: AW: Right mouse button does not work
>
>
> > > When I am running X applications, the right mouse button does not
> > > work.
> >
> > What do you mean that the right mouse button doesn't work?
> >
> > 1) [...]
> >
> > 2) Do you mean that you have used another Windows-based X
> > Server to remotely
> > access the Solaris box and that the right mouse button performs some
> > function for a given Solaris application using the other X
> > Server that it
> > does not perform when using Cygwin/XFree86?
> >
> > 3) [...]
> >
>
> Number 2 is exactly what I am talking about. I have built an application
> using g++ and I would like to debug the application using the
> DataDisplayDebugger 'ddd' (version 3.3).
>
> When I am using the "Hummingbird Exceed" X server everything works just
> fine. There is a "right-button" context menu that gives acces to some
> functions. Using cygwin-xfree-icewm, it does not work.
>
> "It does not work" means exactly:
>
> - At most positions in the window, pressing the right mouse button simply
> does nothing.
>
> - When the arrow pointer points exactly to a graphical symbol (ddd shows a
> little green arrow indicating the current instruction pointer, and a red
> "STOP" symbol to indicate a breakpoint), a context menu opens,
> but selecting
> an entry from the context menu and releasing the right mouse
> button does not
> execute the function selected in the context menu.
>
>
> I suppose that a different problem that I encountered that does
> not include
> "right-mouse-button-action" is related to the problems described above:
>
> Left-clicking into the "GDB console" window should set the keyboard focus
> into this window to enable the user to enter gdb commands directly. At
> least, Exceed behaves this way. Using cygwin-xfree-icewm, there
> is a chance
> of about one per cent that this works. In most cases, clicking
> into the gdb
> console window does not enable keyboard input there.
>
>
> Best regards
> Stefan