Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:01:20 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net> Subject: Re: 3 button mouse Message-ID: <20050228233120.GM73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200502281753.03906.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <4223788C.9060908@attglobal.net> <86hdjw1hfb.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050228223126.GL73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200502281753.03906.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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--EE8jvUPYYQjJtG7J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 28 February 2005 at 17:53:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday 28 February 2005 05:31 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 28 February 2005 at 22:52:08 +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: >>> David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net> writes: >>>> I need a three button mouse. Just three buttons, no wheel, no bells, >>>> no whistles. I can't find one, as everything has a silly wheel. I'm >>>> not picky about interface (PS/2, USB, serial, or Bluetooth will work), >>>> or balls v. optical. Does anyone still sell these things? >>> >>> what do you have against mouse wheels? they are very useful in X, >>> and also function as a middle button. >> >> Let me count the ways... >> >> 1. Few FreeBSD applications support the wheel out of the box, so it's >> not much use. > > KDE supports it out of the box. Just add '-3 -z 4' to your moused > flags and make sure X thinks the mouse has 5 buttons and you are > good to go. If you have the correct kind of mouse. My Samsung cordless mouse doesn't work under these circumstances. > Konqueror, konsole, etc. all have wheel support. I think for my > current USB trackball I basically just plugged it in and it all > worked immediately. I did say "few". I wouldn't want to be forced to use KDE only because of the mouse support. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --EE8jvUPYYQjJtG7J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCI6nIIubykFB6QiMRAj+sAJ9qYG9XKZ0BJdptlKaA1PpFH5k+SACgrZAN chwNIR6GpAqItNrF2LegEUw= =cHYY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EE8jvUPYYQjJtG7J--
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