Re: USB mouse buttons


Subject: Re: USB mouse buttons
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Sep 09 1999 - 18:09:36 MDT


On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Ron Thompson wrote:

> ARGH!
> Hehe...
> I swear I've been reading all the posts (I've been archiving the
> messages for months), and nothing that anyone has suggested has helped
> me map a keyboard key to a mouse button. (I want to press F1 or
> something to make it act as a mouse click from button 2 or 3)
> I've tried modifying my Xmodmap settings, tried the
> adb_buttons=1,whatever,whatever, but I unfortunately don't use an ADB
> mouse. (I do have the option to, I just REALLY don't want to.)
> Does anyone have a solution? The next gen of Macs (G4) (which I will
> surely get as soon as they come out) will not have ADB, and I love GIMP
> (one of my biggest reasons for using Linux), so I must have the second
> mouse button! 8-)

You could replace the puck mouse :)
Unfortunatly, right now, USB 2nd/3rd mouse buttons are already statically
mapped to the numlock and '=' keys.

> Please help!
> -Ron
>
> PS, I've so far convinced about 6 people here in technical support to
> try YellowDog... 8-)

Very cool!

Thanks,
Dan

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