From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: 57320@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 13:52:41 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a67khlf2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgflmc2b.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu via's message of "Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:33:32 +0800")
[புதன் ஆகஸ்ட் 31, 2022] Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:
> Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I wonder if I can pull this off using debug Emacs running in Xephyr and
>> with a single mouse attached
>
> My experience is that subtle bugs with pointer grabbing cannot be
> reproduced in Xephyr (or any environment you specifically set up for
> debugging) at all, but it can't hurt to try.
I tried emacs -Q in Xephyr and it seemed to exhibit the bug but the real
challenge comes when I attach the debugger to the Emacs process, of
course.
>> (or maybe I can get my touchpad and mouse to be separate "mice"
>> somehow)
>
> You could try adding a new master pointer and attaching the device you
> want to behave separately to it.
Thanks for the hint. This will help me.
> The disadvantage is that 99% of window managers have no proper support
> for multi-pointer X environments, and either crash or freeze.
>
> I think mpwm is the only window manager that will work, but it will take
> a lot of time to find a recent copy.
It was surprisingly easy to find.
% git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/mpwm
did it for me. This looks like the right window manager to me upon
reading the README file.
[ I got this URL from this random webpage
https://readlist.com/lists/lists.freedesktop.org/xorg/6/33596.html
that turned up in Brave search. ]
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-21 14:43 bug#57320: 29.0.50; Lucid menus can't be operated with the mouse Stefan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-21 15:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-21 15:08 ` Visuwesh
2022-08-21 15:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-22 1:35 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-30 7:23 ` Visuwesh
2022-08-30 10:07 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-30 14:08 ` Visuwesh
2022-08-31 1:33 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-31 8:22 ` Visuwesh [this message]
2022-08-31 11:17 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-31 14:19 ` Visuwesh
2022-09-04 4:37 ` Visuwesh
2022-09-04 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-04 5:36 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-04 5:54 ` Visuwesh
2022-09-04 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-04 6:43 ` Visuwesh
2022-09-04 8:34 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-04 8:41 ` Visuwesh
2022-09-06 9:44 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-06 8:33 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-06 10:23 ` Visuwesh
2022-09-06 8:22 ` Jean Louis
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