The mouse wheel emulation via a 4th button is a great idea. I think it's
actually even better that real mouse wheels. The only problem with it is
that it requires a fourth button, and we are all aware of the enourmous
variety of underbuttonned mice out there.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to use this feature with *any* mouse? I
mean, users of modern keyboards usually have at least one key they can
spare---think any of the various keys right of the space bar, for
instance, or the Caps Lock key (does anyone actually ever use it? For a
good purpose, I mean). If we could use one of these buttons to shift the
mouse into scroll mode, we would have suddenly scroll-enabled a huge
number of mice!

Unfortunately, I don't know anywhere near of .001% of XFree86's innards
as to figure out whether this keyboard-mouse coordination is at all
feasible within the input layer, but I do think it would be extremely
cool.

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