From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 16 20:30:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA29098 for current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA29092 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:30:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA22011; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:30:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199610170330.XAA22011@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Michael Smith cc: derm@iol.ie (Dermot McNally), gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: Bug with moused and XFree86 References: <199610170206.LAA09780@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:36:50 +0930." <199610170206.LAA09780@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:30:20 -0400 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Funny, I was just hacking some new code into moused to support the Glidepoint trackpad, and I recall seeing a -c option to enable "ChordMiddle" for the two button Microsoft and Logitech MouseMan/Trackman pointing devices. Wouldn't this do what Dermot wanted? louie > Dermot McNally stands accused of saying: > > > > > >This should say "MouseSystems". Moused makes all mice look like > > >MouseSystems mice. > > > > One thought here - is it still possible to switch on Emulate-3-buttons in > > XF86Config with this setup? There doesn't seem to be any way to make > > moused do this. > > If I remember correctly, the 3-button emulation is performed at a > higher level in XF86 than the protocol-decoding module which made it > into moused. Presuming that the server will not reject the emulation > request because it's handling a 3-button mouse type, I would guess it > should work OK. > > How about you try it and let us know if it works? > > > Dermot > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[