On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Does anyone know how to remap the functions of the standard mouse
> buttons?  A friend asked me if he could remap mouse button 2 to be the
> same as a double-clicked button 1 instead of paste.

  You would have to do that in the X server itself, I am pretty sure.  One
of the XFree input extensions may already do this; I would start looking
there.

  I am thinking this would be a bad idea, though -- a lot of things use that
right mouse button extensively, or actually depend on it.  The middle button
would be a better bet, except you would lose "paste" in traditional Unix
programs then.  "Buttons" 4 and 5 are used for Z-axis scrolling.  And
standard X11 has a limit of 5 buttons, or so I am told.

  What we really need is a better pointing device API.  X11 was not designed
with mouse wheels in mind.

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