Re: 3rd button from the sun

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 01:14:01PM +0000, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 12:31:46PM +0000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> > 	I've have had to use the 3rd button on my mouse on X today, and
> > found that it doesn't work. It works fine in the console with gpm, and
> > it works fine in X with gpm running in the console (that meaning: gpm
> > isn't interfering with the mouse). This mouse is some sort of
> > microsoft/mouse man device, and you switch it to mouseman by pressing
> > any of the buttons at boot time (or something along these lines).
> 
> What you can do, if the third button works under gpm, is to run
> gpm with the -R option; this repeats incoming mouse stuff to
> /dev/gpmdata, which you then use in XF86Config as your mouse
> device.  You tell X that the mouse is a mouse systems mouse, as
> I recall, and the third button then works in X.

	Yes, I have tried that, but still no sucess. Actually, debian's
gpm default config exports /dev/gpmdata by default, so I made the
change, but it won`t go. What gpm exports is a ms3 (microsoft 3 button)
mouse event...

	I don't understand... :)
	José

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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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