From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri May 19 18:38:16 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0362AD74363 for ; Fri, 19 May 2017 18:38:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eekee57@fastmail.fm) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE083C23 for ; Fri, 19 May 2017 18:38:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eekee57@fastmail.fm) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C3A2088E for ; Fri, 19 May 2017 14:38:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web1 ([10.202.2.211]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 19 May 2017 14:38:14 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=AwyIZGzpnWQPfuedSCjgy6yIKXmW5 U+o+ojtSQ5PkVM=; b=KKTJf8JKHXAHyyS8PHIuTYRwv/LK+V4q2e90sW1CyvQ4S qRwxv1L/Ii7jEWaJlcv4rZB3li/BR66ibZohzAmT2YrgSOwoeJFQBV9vv3TN8RK+ tJ4OgdznXKvugdP/WpBMJE0Bzwa4wd1ThbwOB9R4HDvCwWwjpS8H1MzrqOZZz4xo HoOc4OTMs7Zc73Vb3Itj0yuE6DpXRmwTmfScf2LnOoUwGwRd+goBN/2Km+LaUlZV p/HbcG+JhblfpBlx7fYPU2aQQvx8vkwFal+das80CbUfk5hxhxdTpay60JmtAgPd OqcEfv6U8ODJPTGrIb06YkIdiQiMZK9v3SU6H9vSg== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=AwyIZG zpnWQPfuedSCjgy6yIKXmW5U+o+ojtSQ5PkVM=; b=rff30TOynR2/AAKtQZqozm T4+OpNcXODT7fJfdoP8g3wWMAgjviyX2gGaOakTBxmwoZWLHwNezL9OjPj4XROdq A5iaNux4aPXGBikMvCoIY0i+9DuZ39UyoUj2pLQiWBHba4ulvpcQvGYJ9IThq8ZB dL3xFRivaK9iimri7k3lQYxwzrVcXxZTJor1N7tZ1PfNkYLQsK0RIMX0wXor34aH 3JUn9XLiBK8GRXEBNik5ayuO/CABM5z201xZnssIWA6fS5IWodg/hxSvOq2dut+V 6dvyHrt4m5zrq50V55Oz2qdzBJa5kuEINhA53Fmgvil6/4FNjmP4ehPMokPd5boA == X-ME-Sender: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 58D0894377; Fri, 19 May 2017 14:38:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1495219094.1488826.982382488.519D524D@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-a5162694 References: <1495208248.1449918.982161320.0B87F123@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20170519180758.f3d8d15c.freebsd@edvax.de> <1495215787.1476791.982307560.646FF759@webmail.messagingengine.com> Subject: Re: remapping pointer buttons Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 19:38:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1495215787.1476791.982307560.646FF759@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 18:38:16 -0000 On Fri, May 19, 2017, at 06:43 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2017, at 05:07 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > > See "man moused", especially the -m option. At least for the OS, > > this is basic functionality which can be configured easily. On X > > it is more complicated of course. ;-) > > thanks! that looks really easy now you've pointed it out... or it will be when i find out where moused is started, which i'm sure i can manage on my own. i like moused's m=n syntax, much less cumbersome than xmodmap or xinput with their lists of numbers. almost! aaaalmost! i added a line to /etc/rc.conf, unplugged and reconnected my usb mouse, and saw my "-m 8=2" in the output of ps. i thought it was great, until i found it doesn't actually work. in x, button 8 is still button 8. i could i try using xorg.conf to just make the same mapping in x, but i'd like to just have one authoritative setting. um... brain's gone blank. i need to set a bigger font for the framebuffer anyway; doing that first. -- Linux? I used ext4 for a few years. In proportion to the time spent using it, I lost as much data to it as I lost to the very worst released version of reiserfs.