Talk:Xmouse

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

Better formatting
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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

I agree on a removal of this page -- it appears to be written by someone who thinks the defining characteristic of X-mouse behaviour is hover and single-click, whilst most X-mouse users and GUI develpers (of which I am one) would define it as focus-follows-mouse, and purists would also require an absence of click-to-raise. The single-click in particular seems to be dead wrong -- all X mouse implementations I've seen until recently have used double-click. Only the latest GUIs like Gnome and KDE have allowed mimicking Macintosh' single-click. In short, I think the author of this has confused X-mouse with Mac-mouse, and unless someone is willing to rewrite this, I recommend removal. 76.28.75.65 (talk) 22:16, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you're unhappy with the presentation of the information, or feel that it's incomplete, you should change it. That is the whole point of wikipedia, and all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.209.248.55 (talk) 23:38, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support for deletion

The article looks abandoned and not sufficiently relevant. Added templates to improve the article before considering deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.194.131.56 (talk) 08:52, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Possible sources

PC Mag brief review, apparently controversial judging by reader response in next issue
Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Windows 95
Windows 95 Registry & Customization Handbook
InfoWorld another brief review

SpinningSpark 18:34, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]