[Bug 476870] Re: Middle-click randomly kills synergyc

[Ricky Brent]

I found that, to summarize... if I have a 9 button on the mouse on the
server, but the client only has a 3 button mouse, synergy will crash
when I use one of those extra buttons.  As some others have noticed,
it's whatever the last mouse used had.

As a work around for me -- and this is nowhere near a "good" solution,
but it beats losing my keyboard and mouse every time Synergy crashes --
I add a "trackstick.fdi" file to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/  :

<match key="info.product" string="PS/2 Generic Mouse">
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">26 27</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">200</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.Buttons" type="string">32</merge>
</match>

(I have a trackstick identified as "PS/2 Generic Mouse" on my Vaio P,
obviously.)  This lets me do vertical scrolling while holding the middle
mouse button down, and since I don't have buttons 26 and 27 assigned to
do anything, doesn't let me scroll horizontally with the trackstick
(still works fine via Synergy.) The "Buttons" parameter seems to be
ignored. All the other buttons that are missing -- 8 and 9 for my mouse
-- also work fine.

Obviously this kind of kludge won't work for other people, but hopefully
it will help.

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Middle-click randomly kills synergyc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476870
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