Weird mouse behaviour

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 27. Apr 2020, at 09:26, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
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> In message <7549A5DD-3EDC-4EFD-BC0B-4D67232B43BB at grem.de>, Michael Gmelin writes:
> 
>>> In my case, with the default
>>> 
>>>   sysctl kern.evdev.rcpt_mask=12
>>> 
>>> CTRL + middle button would not activate the menu in xterm.
>>> 
>> 
>> Are you using the trackpoint?
> 
> No, the touchpad.
> 
>> Did you set the trackpoint sysctl?
>> (hw.psm.trackpoint_support=1)
> 
> That seems to default to one ?
> 

I thought it wasn’t. I’m on a t470s, but I have the trackpoint disabled (and therefore the physical mouse buttons next to the touchpad don’t work).

You could try running a little script I wrote to check your setup, it’s described here (it‘s not perfect, but might help):

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245800#c3

Best,
Michael

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