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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.magg.net!news.bridge.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!142.77.1.4!news.uunet.ca!not-for-mail From: Mike Kerr <mkerr@kerris.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: middle mouse button? Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:17:15 -0500 Organization: Kerr Information Systems Lines: 29 Message-ID: <32E7026B.290D@kerris.com> References: <5bpf6s$54n@eve.umiacs.umd.edu> <32E0BDAB.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> <5c6a81$5bc@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: incubus.uunet.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34449 Roger Espel Llima wrote: > > >> Now I'm stuck on this: I have a three-buttom serial mouse plugged into > >> COM1 (/dev/cuaa0). Is there anyway to get X to recognize this button? > >> If not, how do I fake a middle-mouse button press? > > > >Run the XF86Setup program - it should have a menu for selecting your > >mouse. Once you've chosen the correct 3 button mouse and restarted X > >(after saving your configuration in XF86Setup of course), you should be > >able to use your middle mouse button normally. > > I have the same problem, and tried this without success. My mouse has 3 > buttons, and the drivers supplied for DOS either put in in Microsoft or > Mouse Systems mode. I tried the Mouse Systems setting for XFree86 and > it wouldn't work at all (the mouse wasn't even recognized), with or > without ClearDTR/ClearRTS, while the Microsoft mode would but only using > two buttons. I'm using a Logitech Trackman Marble which has three buttons. I went the method of selecting the Logitech serial mouse, but you should be able to try the 3-button Microsoft mouse. I think that's what the config ended up doing for me anyways. To enable the middle mousebutton, the setup asks you if you want to enable ChordMiddle. You want to answer yes to this. When asked to emulate the middle mouse button, answer no. But all this is in the config (xf86config) Mike.