Two small problems

I haven't been reading this forum much, and although I did look through some of the known issues I might have missed these being reported; sorry.

(1) Something is weird with ALT+mouse camera focusing (ALT key plus mouse-button plus dragging to move the camera around, or alt+cntrl for rotating it). Usually, even a small movement of the mouse in this way causes the camera to go careening off someplace random, much farther than intended, often winding up in a state where the screen actually flashes between two different views even when the mouse is completely still. Oddly enough, I can work around this by having the initial mouse focus (where I hit the mouse button at the start of the process) on an avatar or on land. That consistently works. But on prims, often even on attachments, alt-viewing doesn't work. This makes building anywhere but on the ground a little inconvenient.

(2) I'm not positive this is a Linux-only problem, but I can't seem to sit on anything that hasn't had its sit target explicitly set with llSitTarget(). It always says it can't find a suitable surface.

Thanks!

Ever

Hi!

Please try: http://forums.secondlife.com:80/showthread.php?t=145568

Report back!

I checked the thread, thanks! I tried the environment variable, but it didn't change anything. I looked into the secondlife script, turns out it already exported that variable set to zero anyway. Also, the questioner there noted that the problem only occurred in full-screen mode. I don't run SL in full-screen mode (though maybe I'll try and see if that has an effect). I'll experiment with setting it to other values, but I doubt that will help. It does seem like a similar problem to the one discussed, though.

Thanks for the pointer anyway...

Ever

First thing to try would be a libSDL upgrade if possible - SDL is generally responsible for handling our input in a sane way.

Also note that some 'absolute' input devices like tablets are quite unlikely to work properly in this case as a mouse-substitute, in case you're using one of those. The same may be true of mouse-sharing programs like Synergy if they don't 'fake the virtual mouse' excellently.

Thanks, Tofu...

I upgraded to libSDL-1.2.11, which seems to be the highest stable version. I think it helped *some*, but the effect still happens more often than not.

I'm not using any kind of pseudo-mouse, just the real deal. My system is more or less Slackware 10.x, but I fiddle and tinker with it and upgrade irregularly until it's hardly recognizable, so that might not help you, or me.

Ever