configuring a 3 button mouse.
Geoffrey
lists at serioustechnology.com
Mon Jun 7 17:28:47 PDT 2010
Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> I recently upgraded my Mandriva install and now it appears that my 3
>>>>>> button
>>>>>> mouse is emulating a 2 button mouse as cut/paste only works when I select
>>>>>> buttons 1 and 3, but not with button 2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The middle button is a wheel and scrolling does work with it, which leads
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> more confusion.
>
> wheel work, and click not ? hum ... the middle button not working at
> all ?
> to test it, for example, use middle button on links of Firefox, opens
> links ?
Wheel scrolls, but button does nothing on links or anything else.
>>> (**) Option "Protocol" "auto"
>>> (**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
>>> (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "auto"
>>> (**) Option "CorePointer"
>>> (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer
>>> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>> (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
>>> (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>> (**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
>>> (**) Mouse0: Buttons: 9
>
> seems correct , may be is not X fault ...
What else could it be??? I might hook this mouse up to another linux
box and see if it does the same thing.
--
Until later, Geoffrey
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