RE: KDE Cygwin CM Synergy and right click

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Zach Gelnett wrote:

> > The obvious question: is your Num Lock on?
>
> Wow!  Yes it was/is and turning it off fixes the issue.  Interesting, is
> there a specific reason that this affects the right click of the mouse?

Yep, search the cygwin-xfree archives for "NumLock" or "Num Lock".  There
were even some recipes posted to turn off this behavior.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zach Gelnett
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:19 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree<at>cygwin<dot>com

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR> (now with more reasons).
	Igor

> Subject: KDE Cygwin CM Synergy and right click
>
> I posted this on the KDE forum to (http://tinyurl.com/5wovg), not sure which
> is the correct place.
>
> Does anyone use CM Synergy with a KDE-cygwin install?
>
> My problem is that the right-click function doesn't work. When I right click
> in the app (server based running over X) it should bring up a list of
> actions and such, instead it just changes the arrow pointer to a finger
> that's pointing and nothing else happens.
>
> A buddy of mine is having the exact same issue running Synergy with just X,
> no desktop environment (just found this out so that's why I'm writing to
> this list).
>
> It sounds like a setting somewhere in Cygwin to modify how it handles the
> right click event.
>
> This functionality works as expected (I get the menu of actions and such
> with a right click) in exceed I'm just having issues with cygwin not
> handling the right click properly.
>
> Any ideas as to what I could do to fix the issue?

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