Subject: Re: 3 button mouse emulation
From: Myles (myles@nycap.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 16:37:30 MDT
Dan Burcaw wrote:
>
> > I've been watching posts on this for many weeks now. They come regularly,
> > and never with any resolution. I, too, would *really* like to get emulation
> > working, because I refuse to spend $50 on a mouse when I had three-button
> > emulation working just fine in CS1.0.
> >
> > Is there an official response from YDL about this? I'm a little irritated
> > that a feature appears to have been removed from YDL without any public
> > acknowledgement. Especially given that every Mac comes with a one-button
> > mouse. This seems like a pretty important UI issue.
>
> Essentially, here is what happened.. the previous CS releases shipped with
> older kernels. (CS1.1 shipped with 2.2.6) They used UUSBD for USB support.
> UUSBD setup the emulation of USB mice to two keys on the keyboard.
> Now that we are using the Linux kernel's own implimentation of USB
> support, the ability to emulate mouse buttons was lost. It is still
> possible from the X server too.
>
> The following URL has been postedo n this list before:
> http://people.a2000.nl/omoerbe/
>
> Scroll down to: "How to map Mac keyboard keys to mouse buttons"
> And read the text. It explains in detail why mouse emulation worked
> before, and how you can still use it on your system.
>
> We don't just remove features for no good reason.
>
> Regards,
> Dan
>
Ok, how 'bout Turbo Mouse 5.0 (ADB) support? This had 3-button
functionality under 2.2.6, but works only as a 1-button mouse under
2.2.15 Is there a patch available?
-Myles
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