You can create "fake" centre and right mouse buttons, or you can simply buy a three button usb mouse and plug it in. Personally I'm using F11, F12 as mouse buttons [1], and in some ways it has advantages (you don't accidentally click the button!... but then you probably aren't as un-coordinated as I am ;-)) Normal people would probably buy a 3 button mouse.
So far, I have only found one package that is not on PPC (GHC5). I think the lag is in the order of days usually, but others more experienced than me might be better informed. David. [1] In Debian, to add F11,F12 as mouse buttons: edit /etc/sysctl.conf by adding these lines.... dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1 dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 87 dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 88 then restart procps: /etc/init.d/procps.sh restart (thanks to whoever on the list told me this trick) On Sun, 5 May 2002, Timothy Bateman wrote: > Slug, > May I pose a question to the users of Apple iBooks or Powerbooks - > how inconvenient is the single mouse button on these machines for use with > Linux? Does it take much to get used to the alternate key mapping you can > do to emulate more mouse buttons. Mac OS X is obviously designed to use > only a single mouse button but even that can feel foreign to an ardent fan > of 3 button mice. > > Also, how far behind x86 Linux do you find the software available > for PowerPC Linx lags ? > > Thanks > > Tim Bateman > > -- > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
