On Feb 4, 2008, at 13:13 , Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs wrote:
What I tried was simply to add Button6 and Button7 to the Lists in the code and recompile, but apparently they must be declared elsewhere first. I get a few errors such as this one.
Types.hsc:1329:0: error: `Button6' undeclared (first use in this function)
Button1 .. Button5 came from the X11 master header (X11/X.h) as exposed by the X11 Haskell package. The button event definition only has room for 5 buttons (it is a bitmap, and all available bits are used).
Somebody on #xmonad claimed that it might be necessary to use the XInput library to add support for mice with more than 5 buttons in xmonad (or any other haskell program).
That was me; see above for the reason. The XInput extension provides access to unlimited mouse buttons, as opposed to the standard XEvent API which is limited to 5 buttons. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH