[ltp] trackpoint issue thinkpad x30

[Matthew O'Gorman]

oh i didnt type the other part, my bad.  I opened it up in twm and
ctrl click does the exact same thing.  I will try a knoppix cd tonight
I hope, but i doubt that will solve it, thanks for the suggestions
thus far.

On 2/26/07, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Matthew O'Gorman wrote:
> > well when i move the mouse i get tons of
>
>
> > MotionNotify event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00001,
> >    root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 8613951, (11,73), root:(731,359),
> >    state 0x0, is_hint 0, same_screen YES
> >
>
> etc.
>
> You have to correlate this with what you do. But, for example, you
> should see button_1 and Ctrl_L  appearing when you press them.
>
> > hmm both on serial 29....
> >
> > startx as root did not cause any change.  i am using gnome, on debian
> > unstable, although earlier i was running debian stable with no luck
> > either.  nothing interesting in my xorg.log that i can see.
> >
>
> My guess is that something in Gnome is trapping Ctrl-click. Could it be
> bound to something in the window-manager?
>
> Try either:
>
> 1)look carefully through the advanced config options in gnome.
>
> 2)Test with KDE.  [It's better, anyway ;-) ]
>
> 3)Try, as a test, some very simple window manager like icewm, and see
> whether you can ctrl-click as you expect.
>
>
> Richard
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