Re: FVWM: emulating mouse button 2 on HP touchpad
Mandar Mitra <[email protected]> Mon, 15 May 2023 13:23:05 +0530
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Lucio Chiappetti wrote (Sun, May 14, 2023 at 11:11:41PM +0200): > This has nothing to do with xdotool. If in ANOTHER terminal I do > > sleep 5; xdotool click 2 > > and then qjuickly enough move the mouse to an xterm, the MB1 selection *is* > pasted. But of course this is a bit clumsy. > > So the problem is an incompatibility between xterm and fvwm syntethic events > (or a syntax problem with PointerKey ?) I don't understand this very well, so I have a related question: are all events generated by xdotool synthetic events? Does this mean that xdotool will not work for some modern, security-conscious applications? Thanks, Mandar.