Re: 3rd button from the sun

[Dr A V Le Blanc <nospam [at] mcc.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 12:31:46PM +0000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> 	I've have had to use the 3rd button on my mouse on X today, and
> found that it doesn't work. It works fine in the console with gpm, and
> it works fine in X with gpm running in the console (that meaning: gpm
> isn't interfering with the mouse). This mouse is some sort of
> microsoft/mouse man device, and you switch it to mouseman by pressing
> any of the buttons at boot time (or something along these lines).

What you can do, if the third button works under gpm, is to run
gpm with the -R option; this repeats incoming mouse stuff to
/dev/gpmdata, which you then use in XF86Config as your mouse
device.  You tell X that the mouse is a mouse systems mouse, as
I recall, and the third button then works in X.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc [at] mcc.ac.uk
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