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Date:      Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:34:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can console emulate 3 button mouse
Message-ID:  <200403241834.i2OIYB724964@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040324182654.GB68070@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> from "Matthew Seaman" at Mar 24, 2004 06:26:54 PM

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> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:11:39AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> 
> > is two button.   In X it does the emulate 3 button when both
> > buttons are pressed just fine.   But, that doesn't seem to work
> > on the console.  It highlights text just fine, but I haven't
> > discovered a combination that will get it to write that back out.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I have done some searching and tried various things that might
> > be remotely related, but nothing has helped.
> 
> 
> See moused(8) -- the first option described is '-3' which enables
> emulation of the middle button in exactly the same way as it works
> under X.

Yup.   Got it.   I had gotten off on to a wrong search track
and needed to start looking for the right thing.

Thanks,

////jerry

> 
> Just stick:
> 
>     moused_flags=3D"-3"
> 
> into /etc/rc.conf
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> --=20
> Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
>                                                       Savill Way



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