[Xastir] I've broken my Xastir install :-(

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:55:43AM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <ibennett at tpg.com.au> flavor, containing:
> 	But (and isn't there always), when I right-click on the map, the pop-up 
>       menu doesn't stay there for me to make a selection.
> 	I seem to remember something about a "right-click problem" but that 
>       related to Fedora. Anyone seeing something similar with (K)Ubuntu 8.04??


This is an unfortunate side-effect of the workaround that was put in to 
deal with broken X servers  Xorg-server 1.7.5 has a bug that affects *all*
programs that use motif, locking the mouse anytime the program tries to
pop-up a menu,  That is the "right-click problem" you're remembering, and 
while Fedora was the first system to show it, many other systems now have it.

Since more and more distros are coming out that use Xorg-server 1.7.5 and 
don't patch it, it was necessary to put a work-around into Xastir to get it
to work at all on those systems.

With the work-around in place, the pop-up menu currently pops up only as long 
as you hold down the mouse button.  This is better than what it does with that 
broken server, which is to lock the mouse.

Hopefully, since this bug in the X server has supposedly been fixed, this
work-around will only need to be temporary.  Unfortunately, it's not easy
to tell in the code when it's talking to a broken server, so the workaround
has to be in place unconditionally.

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