[Wine] Re: Weatherscope mouse button issues

Duane Clark dclark at akamail.com
Wed Mar 14 19:39:16 CDT 2007


Ryan May wrote:
> Declan Moriarty wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 19:07 +0000, Declan Moriarty wrote:
>>
>>>> Weatherscope is freely available here:
>>>> http://sdg.ocs.ou.edu/builds/final/win/WeatherScope/WeatherScope-1.4.1.exe
>>> I tried this. I caught the stuff about  using the full command line, did
>>> no tricks or fiddles, and the mouse behaved perfectly. I could enter
>>> graph mode, cover something, right click, select properties, and
>>> everything worked fine. I'd need instructions or a file to put the
>>> program through any paces, though.
>>>
>>> My system is FC5, with a usb optical mouse. In my experience, issues
>>> with a mouse that works are usually the protocol. I have this in
>>> xorg.conf
> 
> So to be clear, when right-clicking and selecting properties and the 
> dialog pops up, you can interact with it right away?  On my system, when 
> I do this, I need to click once (anywhere) before I can work with the 
> dialog.  Before I click, the cursor becomes a no sign (circle with 
> diagonal line through it) any time it is over a UI element, which to me 
> signals invalid drag-and-drop.  This is with usb optical mouse on Gentoo 
> AMD64 with wine-0.9.32.  I checked your xorg.conf info, and the only 
> difference here is that protocol is set to "Auto".  (I'll check if 
> IMPS/2 makes a difference when I get a chance.)
> 

I'm wondering if the two of you might have different mouse behavior 
settings in your window manager. Do you have your mouse set so that a 
window becomes active as soon as the mouse moves into it (a normal X 
window, like a terminal window), or do you have to click the window 
before it becomes active.




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