Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:58:54 +1000 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, Otter <otter@otter.cc> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Microsoft Intelimouse 3rd Button Message-ID: <00042514002001.00342@freebsd.freebsd.org> References: <39034294.F87F0DF0@3-cities.com>
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And from the KDE applications you can't paste to netscape and Applixware. This is very annoying when people are trying to send you a URL or some sample code you want to copy form kedit to applixware. On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > Otter wrote: > > > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > I have been frustrated on my multi-boot system because of the > > > perceived lack of a 3rd button. Then I went into XF86Setup to look at > > > my mouse settings. There I found that by pushing the wheel down I have > > > my 3rd button. > > > -- > > > Kent Stewart > > > Richland, WA > > > > > > > Kent, > > FYI: Should you ever get another mouse or your up/down stops working, > > you can do "3 button emulation" by pressing left and right together > > (and configurig in xf86config). By the way, thanks for the tip on > > pushing the wheel. i've been "dual clicking" for quite a while now. I > > have the Logitech w/ a wheel. > > Hi Otter, > > I'm glad the tip was useful. I use KDE and found that the combo of > pressing the left and right button together to paste didn't work. I > figure there wasn't something I could do but it hadn't reached the > really irritating point. There are only so many things that you can > discover in a day and the mouse problem never seemed to reach that > point. Then, one day I was in the process of making one of my Windows > 2000 Pro machines also boot FreeBSD. There were parameters that I > needed to copy from a configuration file on one system to another and > the third button problem finally became irritating enough that I > stopped to deal with it. > > I've always used XF86Setup instead of xf86config. So, I ran XF86Setup > from a KDE terminal window to see about using 3rd button simulation > and accidentally found I had a 3rd button. I think what really > surprised me was that the wheel acted like a button. The mouse > pictured in XF86Setup had three buttons and I am still surprised that > I pushed the wheel down to test it but I did and it worked. That was > the biggest "WOW" of the day. I hadn't seen any comments on the wheel > acting like a button and thought that one in the archives might save > someone some frustration. Why simulate the third button when you > already have one. It is good to see that the Logitech also works the > same way. > > At any rate, pressing the wheel down always pasted what I had > selected. That made cross machine editing much easier :). Later, I > started cross nfs_mounting any important file system. I could use the > default KDE editor, which is much more compatible with x-windows than > vi is, and it wouldn't have mattered so much. There are files that you > can't click with KDE and have them pop up in an editor window. The > need to use vi would have been reduced and the 3rd button may never > have been irritating enough to check on the configuration. > > Cheers, > > Kent > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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