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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>
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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
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