Re: Annoying mouse binding problem

[Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche math ntnu no>]

+ Timo Korvola <Timo Korvola iki fi>:

> Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche math ntnu no> writes:
> > Not really, but I do have a nonstandard one that I set using xkbc
> > during session setup. - - Could it have side effects, though?
> 
> Probably not if it does not use multiple keyboard groups.  Sawfish
> support for more than five mouse buttons is a bit flaky because it
> uses modifier bits internally to represent mouse buttons.  In
> particular, modifier bits 13 and 14 are used by Sawfish to represent
> buttons 6 and 7 whereas X uses the same bits to represent keyboard
> groups.  X uses bits 8-12 to represent the first five buttons but does
> not assign modifier bits to higher numbered buttons.

Thanks for the explanation. Is any of this oddness visible from lisp,
or is it all hidden away in C code? In other words, is there anything
I can do in sawfish-client that might possibly shed some light on the
problem?

- Harald