In a message dated: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:49:25 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
>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.
Where exactly is there. X is not one of those things I've ever spent
any time trying to learn. It either works or it doesn't. If it
doesn't, I wait a while until it does :)
> 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.
Yeah, but who cares? Shift+Ins works a whole lot better than that
anyway :)
> "Buttons" 4 and 5 are used for Z-axis scrolling. And standard X11 has
> a limit of 5 buttons, or so I am told.
Never seen a 4 or 5 button mouse. Though for gaming I'm sure they'd
be quite useful :)
> What we really need is a better pointing device API. X11 was not designed
>with mouse wheels in mind.
Neither was I! I hate the damn things. Both mice and wheels :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
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