Rapidweather
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Posted: Jan. 27 2004,01:45 |
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Cannot Drag a Window by Titlebar or Resize a Window
(mouse related?)
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For some reason, I cannot drag a window by the titlebar, or resize a window. I can click on full screen, and get by ok with that, but it makes it difficult to use fluxbox with this shortcoming.
There are other little mouse quirks that are difficult to explain.
(I have DSL on a laptop, and everythings ok there.)
Now, I have put it on a desktop, and copied the /knoppix directory
to C:\knoppix and boot DSL with a boot floppy, vga=787. I'm there now.
If I try and drag the window around, it quickly shades, then unshades. won't move, however. The menu does the same thing, so I think it may be a mouse problem. I have a bus mouse, on the serial port, as this FIC VA 503+ motherboard does not have a ps-2 mouse connector. I have both Mandrake 8 and Debian 2.2 on this computer, and both work extremely well, no mouse problems at all.
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Here's some good news, while you are thinking about my mouse problem:
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Since I do not have a usb port, I cannot restore with a memory stick, so I just mount the Mandrake 8 partition, and run the Phoenix Web Browser out of there.
Goes like this:
#cd /
#mkdir mandrake
#mount /dev/hdb1 -t ext2 /mandrake
#cd /mandrake/home/phoenix
#./phoenix
And off she runs! It's phoenix 5.0, and that runs on Mandrake 8, so I "borrow" it for Damn Small Linux. I could download MozillaFirebird 7, but Phoenix 5 is close enough. I suppose I could store MozillaFirebird in one of the other permanent Linux partitions, but It won't run there. Debian 2.2 is too old for even Phoenix 5, and Mandrake 8 only can handle Phoenix 5.
Anyway, once I do download it in Damn Small Linux, it'll start up by itself after the download, and I'll need to save the /MozillaFirebird directories to the other partitions before I turn the computer off! Then I can just run them out of their saved location in /dev/hdb1 to get Moz 7 up and running in DSL. Only problem with that is no .phoenix directory is made in DSL, so preferences, etc are lost each reboot.
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About the mouse problem... Anyone know if it's fluxbox related? Probably not, it's my setup. In my Debian /etc/X11/XF86Config, the mouse section is:
Section "pointer"
Protocol "Microsoft"
Device "/dev/ttyS1"
And as I said, the mouse works just fine there, under that
XF86Config. I tried copying that to DSL, but could not determine if it was in fact running, since I am using fbdev, and cannot get xvesa to work. That idea got tangled up, so I dropped it. 
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