Subject: Re: ADB Mouse II and X Windows
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@romulus.rutgers.edu>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/27/1997 09:40:52
Ken Nakata wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Oct 1997 05:01:13 -0800 (PST),
> SamMaEl <rimsky@teleport.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 	I've heard talk about 3 button mice and X... but what about just
> > your vanilla ADB Mouse II? I've been trying to figure out how to use the
> > xterm menu's with only one pointer button... and haven't been able to
> > figure out how to use xmodmap to map the other 2 buttons which the ADB
> > mouse does NOT have to a keystroke combination... so that I can use the
> > other 2 windows. Has anybody else tried this??
> 
> You can't use xmodmap to remap key combinations for emulated mouse
> buttons.  It's done in the kernel, rather than in the X server.

BTW, what Ken may have forgotten to mention is that you have keyboard
emulation of the extra buttons already.  You can either use
option-leftarrow and option-rightarrow for middle and right buttons,
respectively, or else use option-1, option-2, option-3 for each mouse
button.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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