xfce, Apple X11, and mouse emulation

Fred Dushin fadushin at fourfold.org
Sun Jan 21 16:04:47 CET 2007


Is there anything else I need to do, other than moving the shlibs out  
of the mcs-plugins directory?

/opt/local/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins> sudo mv mouse_plugin.* ~/mcs

Tried that, but the behavior is still the same.

BTW, earlier versions of XFCE off macports (can't say which, exactly  
- -- maybe a year or so ago) did not exhibit this behavior, so it  
seems to be something that crept in, either to XFCE, or into Apple's  
X11.

I'm not sure what other X11 ports there are to OS X.  I'll poke  
around and see.

- -Fred

On Jan 19, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Olivier Fourdan wrote:

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> Fred Dushin wrote:
>> I was wondering if anyone one this list might have some guidance for
>> diagnosing this issue, as I don't think the macports folks have any
>> insight into the problem.
>>
>> For the benefit of the XFCE crowd, I am running XFCE 4.2.2 on an
>> intel macbook (core 2 duo), built off macports (http://
>> www.macports.org).  I have been able to confirm the same behavior on
>> a PowerPC, so it does not seem to be processor-related.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>
> Try removing the mouse MCS plugin and restart your X session. It looks
> like a bug in mac ports of X11 as xfce relies on X11 for these stuff.
>
> By removing the mouse settings MCS plugin, you'll prevent xfce from
> adjusting the mouse params which I suspect to be the root of the bug.
>
> Let us know if that helps,
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
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