Re: [TCLUG:12644] mouse woes

["John R. Sheets" <dusk@ravendusk.org>]

On Jan 21, 2000, Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, John R. Sheets wrote:
> 
> > I've got a 4-button MouseMan Wheel, and think it's just great.  Comfy
> > too.  I moved the middle button click to the side button so I don't have
> > to worry about wheeling and clicking at the same time.
> 
> Uh. the side button works!? how? :)

Well, it wasn't easy to figure it out.  After much pounding myself about
the head with a USB connector, I came across the following fix:

In /etc/X11/XF86Config, I have this section (I should probably remove
that crusty old Emulate3Timeout, though):

Section "Pointer"
   Protocol        "MouseManPlusPS/2"
   Device          "/dev/mouse"
   Emulate3Timeout 50
   Resolution      100
   Buttons         6
   ZAxisMapping 5 2
EndSection

And to tweak the individual mouse buttons, I do this:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 5 3 2 4 6"

Now that scrolling works predictably in Netscape, I'm very much the
happy mouser.  (c:

John

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