Xorg and mouse....

Dan Kilbourne bsd-lists at netophilia.net
Tue Dec 14 09:01:38 PST 2004


Bomgardner,Jon  extolled:
> Hello All! 
> 
> Well, I was finally able to get Xorg up and running at full screen
> however, I seem to have this peculiar problem. While I can move my mouse
> around in the window, I cannot use any of the mouse buttons. Now, I have
> not set up a Window Manager yet (will be setting up KDE as soon as I can
> get things straightened out) but I thought I'd at least get a
> right-click context menu in Xorg.  Would this be correct? And if so, how
> would I go about troubleshooting this?  I have no way to remotely
> connect to the computer so any suggestions involving that probably won't
> help.
> 
> Anyway, after the success I've had with answers from the group so far, I
> expect it won't take long to lick this problem as well...
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help,
> Jon Bomgardner
> 


Try running a window manager that is already installed - you should have
twm. Just add it to your .xsession or .xinitrc file, and that will give
you a right-click menu

I am sure there are other ways to make sure the mouse works though.


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Dan


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