Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:53:03 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Cc: David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net> Subject: Re: 3 button mouse Message-ID: <200502281753.03906.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050228223126.GL73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4223788C.9060908@attglobal.net> <86hdjw1hfb.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050228223126.GL73162@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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. 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. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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