Talk:Xmouse

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Created by Alex Jurkiewicz --Chequers 13:02, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC) Still to be added/improved:

• Better formatting
• Origins
• Links
• Possible integration with the Computer Mouse page

BuiJ, 2006-10-19:

I believe all the other functionality of xmouse system should be included too! I personally find the select-activate functionality (as described) annoying and disable it, but love the copy-paste and focus-following functionalities. Txmouse homepage offers a nice description.

I agree regarding the other functionality. To me, the defining characteristics are focus-follows-mouse and selection-paste behavior -- the single-click activation is a separate thing that is often available without x-mouse (e.g. win32 stock config). Not only are they not mentioned, but they are specifically discounted by this statement: "Operation of menus, text selection and other features remain unchanged." That's just plain wrong. However, the assumption that this is "non-standard" seems wrong to me -- AFAIK this behavior was standard in UNIX at least since X Window came into being. If this is non-standard, then so is the standard Windows way, and there isn't really a standard. Or you could say there are different standards on different platforms, and configuring Windows with x-mouse is non-standard, as is configuring Linux (or other UNIX-likes) with Win-mouse. 129.74.64.210 17:12, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

To me it is unclear if the article talks about a general system for mouse behaviour, or a particular program implementing such a behaviour. I do not recognize the normal X11/Unix behaviour in the articles description of xmouse, especially the part about selecting icons by hoovering. Further more, the article is not neutral: "Proponents ... claim..." but "disadvantages are...". I would vote for removal. /David A 195.84.167.2 —Preceding comment was added at 23:40, 6 November 2007 (UTC)