Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:09:50 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net> Subject: Re: 3 button mouse Message-ID: <861xazohpd.fsf@xps.des.no> 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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Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes: > 1. Few FreeBSD applications support the wheel out of the box, so it's > not much use. Most X applications support wheel scrolling out of the box if moused and X are configured properly. This includes xterm, emacs, gimp, and all browsers I've tried, as well as all GTK and Qt applications (read gnome and kde). > 2. Setup is non-trivial. Every mouse seems to have its own protocol, > and I have a number here which I can't enable. I've never had a mouse that moused couldn't autodetect. As for enabling the wheel, just add '-z 4' to moused's command line and 'Option "Buttons" "5"' to the appropriate InputDevice section in xorg.conf. I have to admit that I don't use the middle button much (Shift-Ins and Ctrl-V are far more convenient), but I use the wheel a lot. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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