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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: X *almost* works -- mouse and cursor probs
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Date: 18 Apr 93 05:38:06 GMT
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In article <9310516.13016@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark
Summerfield) writes:
>
> 1) I have a three button mouse (it's cheapo Taiwanese "Agiler"
>    mouse), but the server flatly refuses to acknowledge button 2.
>    Buttons 1 and 3 do exactly what they're meant to, but I've got no
>    paste selection function, which a bit of a problem!

Do you have `EmulateThreeButtons' (or whatever it's called) set, by
chance?  What type of mouse is it installed as?

> 2) The cursor keys don't work in vi under xterm.  Why not?  They work
>    on the console, and tcsh interprets them OK even in an xterm.

`vi' under 386BSD is an old version of `elvis', and needs badly to be
updated.

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