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Bug|RFE: Manually set mouse button count


Hello,

At least if XWin is run on notebook, there might be the problem that cygwin incorrectly detects the number of available mouse buttons. This may be the case especially if a 3-button-wheel mouse is attached to a PS/2-port of that notebook, because the internal PS/2-port emulator intermixes external mouse events with touchpad events. In this case, cygwin detects only 2 buttons (I assume the two touchpad buttons), while it should detect 3 buttons.

This is usually not a real problem, because cygwin seems to add (by default) 2 buttons (for wheel-up and wheel-down), resultin in a total of 4 buttons. But if the user wants to use the wheel of the attached wheel mouse, the wheel-up-events are properly scheduled to the X clients, but the wheel-down-events are not.

If one could manually specifiy the number of available mouse buttons (e.g. by command-line), this problem could be solved. Additionally, a related problem could be solved, too: Even if XWin correctly detects at startup time that there are only 2 mouse buttons, users might plug in a mouse with more buttons later on.

Cheers,
Xuân.


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